During Monday’s keynote address at Quest’s The Expert’s Conference, Microsoft revealed that they have split Forefront Identity Manager from the Sync Engine it uses (formerly MMS, MIIS, ILM 2007) and placed the Sync engine under Conrad Bayer. I am not certain this fully constitutes a shift in strategy for FIM or the reality that legacy [...]
I am pleased to announce that later today, Quick Connect 4.5 will be made Generally Available (GA)to the public. You can now download the bits from http://www.quest.com/common/registration.aspx?requestdefid=20088. What’s New: Password Synchronization – Quick Connect can synchronize passwords between Active Directory and some categories of connected systems. Active Directory and connected systems are governed by different [...]
After announcing a year long delay last month, last week Microsoft a change of direction of ILM once again by lumping it into the Forefront suite and renaming the product. I found it interesting that Microsoft acknowledged the industry problem of the complexity of Identity Management software by assigning a tag line to the new [...]
My Friday post seems to have been too optimistic about Microsoft’s April launch of ILM 2 (See http://www.bobbobel.com/ilm-2-news/ ). Yesterday morning Microsoft announced that ILM 2 wouild be delayed until sometime next year at the earliest. I know there are not only going to be customers upset by this news, but also 3rd party software [...]
April is going to be a big month for Microsoft, after the delays and then cancelations of GEMINI and Password Portal Microsoft will introduce ILM 2. I know folks like Omada, Ensync and Oxford as well as the Microsoft field sales reps are pinning their hopes on ILM 2 to make sales in this sluggish [...]
