I am very proud to announce that ActiveRoles Server 6.7 and Quick Connect 4.7 become generally available (GA) today. Look for the new product to be on our download servers over the next several hours. As with all previous releases – this release has several building blocks that when exploited will have a huge impact on [...]
Managing access to applications and data resources can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. IT administrators are often asked to grant access to sensitive data without knowing the business justification why a user should have it. The result may be inappropriate authorization, access delays, or groups that are bloated, outdated and inaccurate. This lack of [...]
Last week I forgot to mention that we renamed our Exchange Resource Forest Manager module to Quick Connect for Exchange Resource Forests and updated it to support the latest version of Exchange and ActiveRoles Server. This module extends the multi-forest management capability of ActiveRoles Server to synchronize and provision accounts between a User Account Forest [...]
Eric Rux at Windows IT Pro magazine took on the job of installing and reviewing a bunch of AD Administration and Provisioning products to help readers select the most comprehensive and complete solution. Eric compared four different products and to me it was no surprise that ActiveRoles came out on top as the clear winner. What [...]
A little earlier today I recieved the GOLD code for ActiveRoles Server 6.5, the next release in our wildly popular provisioning and administration platform. The public release is still a little way off, but it won’t be long now and the GOLD code will be used to perpare all the teams in Quest for unleashing [...]
One of the conversations I had during my week in Berlin was with Dimitry Kaganski a Sr. Architect here at Quest. He had been asked by a customer, why we were not using Microsoft Outlook Client built-in work-flow to allow Outlook users to click a button to approve or reject work-flow requests in ActiveRoles Server. [...]
Most of the directory owners to which I speak, have for a number of years, been living with legal or regulatory compliance. Most have followed a predictable pattern of first sweating out their initial audit then later rationalizing better ways to implement whatever compliance policy to which they must adhere for sustained compliance. First Audits are [...]
On Friday I posted part 1 of the additional details about how Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration will provision SharePoint. This post, Part 2, will provide some additional details on the SharePoint Attestation and Remediation aspects of our solution. SharePoint Attestation: For customers who own ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRoles Self-Service manager, this new [...]
Since I mentioned our work on SharePoint in may (see http://www.bobbobel.com/teched-day-2-sharepoint-and-ad-groups/) I’ve had a lot of request for more details. We have come a long way in the development cycle and so I wanted to share some details about our plans for a public beta that will happen in about one month’s time. In August [...]
