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Quick Connect and Quest Password Manager

Bob — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Quest Password Manager is capable of integrating with Quick Connect to leverage its functionality and enable users, help desk operators, and administrators to more efficiently manage passwords across multiple data sources in the enterprise. When a user in Password Manager views their profile they can be given the option of individually changing individual passwords on Quick Connect connected systems or have those passwords synchronized with their Active Directory password. This provides a single location for users to manage all their enterprise passwords.

Quick Connect 4.5 GA!

Bob — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:31:37 +0000

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 access policies. Consequently, users need to maintain different user accounts and different passwords on these systems.

Maintaining several passwords on several different systems is a hassle for users and administrators. Quick Connect provides for Quick Connect Capture Agent to be installed on all domain controllers in the source Active Directory connections. Capture Agent tracks changes that were made to user password in Active Directory, and then Quick Connect Sync Engine synchronizes the passwords basing on this information.

What’s New: Re-designed Sync History Log – The Sync History feature of the application allows you to view reports on the performed synchronization workflow runs. The Sync History tab allows you to display a list of all performed synchronization workflows runs, and then view the report on the workflow run of interest. In addition to this possibility, the new version of the Sync History tab allows you first to filter the synchronization reports for all object pairs using some filter criteria, and then select the report to view.

What’s New: Additional Rules for Synchronizing Multi-valued attributes – In Quick Connect 4.0 we provided multi-attribute synchronization but we found we needed more options. Group and role assignments are often stored using multiple values in a single attribute and many traditional provisioning solutions are limited single value attribute provisioning . Flexible multi-value capability allows roles and groups to be synchronized between systems. For example, you may want to synchronize an SAP Role to an Microsoft Exchange Distribution List so you can easily email those individuals. Without multi-value capability coordinating such seemingly simple lists becomes very-very difficult.

Quick Connect 4.5 Goes Gold!

Bob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:46 +0000

Following up on our highly successful 4.0 release, 4.5 went gold last week. We are now going through the internal processes needed to release the product to the public next month.

The biggest news about this release is that Quick Connect can synchronize passwords between Active Directory and connected systems. Active Directory and connected systems are governed by different access policies. Consequently, users need to maintain different user accounts and different passwords on these systems. Maintaining several passwords on several different systems is a hassle for users and administrators. Quick Connect now provides a Password Capture Agent to be installed on all domain controllers in the source Active Directory connections. The Capture Agent tracks changes that were made to user password in Active Directory, and then Quick Connect Sync Engine synchronizes the passwords basing on this information.

Also new in this release:

Updated design of history log to allow better searching and filtering
Additional rules for synchronizing multi-value attributes
Various improvments and resovled issues

We had a excellent year in 2009 and with this hot new release of Quick Connect I anticipate an even better 2010.