Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at the Air Force Information Technology Conference 2011 on HSPD-12 and its impact on logical access control. While preparing for this session I realized I needed to re-visit Microsoft’s PKI (Public Key Infrastructure); especially changes in Windows 2008, Vista and Windows 7 strong authentication support. The first thing [...]
I get one question frequently from both customers and colleges. “Why was ActiveRoles able to so easily beat the competition over the past seven years?” Unfortunately, there isn’t a single answer, rather it is a combination of design elements put into the product over time. Purpose Built for Active Directory -Unlike other solutions, ActiveRoles was [...]
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2010/10/04/a-jug-fills-drop-by-drop-quest-pki-cmdlets.aspx
One of the great new capabilities new to ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS version 1.4 is the ability to define criteria for how you want to identify obsolete or inactive accounts. You define the criteria as an “InactiveAccountsPolicy” that can be called from the Get-QADUser cmdlet to list accounts matching the obsolete policy then delete, disable or if [...]
The 1.4 version of the ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS went live a few moments ago and you can download them here http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx.
Along with the release of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 we have also updated the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS. This release will continue to work with the supported versions of Active Directory as it has in the past. When you are using PowerShell with ActiveRoles Server it is only compatible with ActiveRoles Server version 6.5 and no [...]
