Dmitry Sotnikov had a good post on Kirk Monroe leaving Quest’s PowerGUI team. Kirk will be missed. http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/quest-software-kirk-powergui-powershell/
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Active Directory | Tags:
Active Directory,
Active Directory Help,
ActiveRoles Server,
AD CMDLETS,
Bobel,
Deprovisioning,
inactive accounts enumeration,
obsolete accounts,
PowerShell,
PowerShell Certificate,
PowerShell PKI management,
Quest CMDLETS |
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In late June or early July, a new version of the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS will be released. I wanted to give everyone a teaser about the new features to be added. Here you go! - Certificate management - Support for cross-domain group membership - inactive accounts enumeration - single command to search in multiple [...]
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform got a small update last week when they added PowerShell commands allowing users to manage services hosted on the platform. Ryan Dunn of Microsoft said on his blog that the pack called the Windows Azure Service Management cmdlets (WASM) were built to give people working with Azure an API to [...]
Category:
Active Directory | Tags:
ABAC,
access accountability,
access lifecycle,
Active Directory Help,
ActiveRoles Self-Service Manager,
ActiveRoles Server 6.5,
AD Change Management,
Attestation,
Attribute Based Provisioning,
Compliance,
Identity Lifecycle,
Identity Management,
PowerShell,
Quest Software,
Self-Service Group Management |
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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 [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov recently blogged that PowerShell MVP Vadims Podāns has posted a CA Management Console that can be downloaded here. The solution based on PowerShell and runs in the PowerGUI console provides the following: Certificate Authorities management: CRL Distribution Points (CDP) Authority Information Access (AIA) settings Review CRLs Publish new CRLs Change CRL publishing periods including overlap [...]
While I’ve been here in Berlin at the Quest TEC conference, I have received several questions about when the next version of the Quest AD CMDLETS will be available. Version 1.3 is in the works and we should have a public preview version in the next month or so – so stay tuned.
In the morning tomorrow I depart for Berlin Germany to attend the Quest European TEC conference. While there we are holding our first ever EMEA ActiveRoles Server User Group meeting where we will be talking about the next release and some future product directions. The User Group will be held at the tail end of [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov wrote a great article on how to locate large groups in Active Directory using PowerShell. In the example script he shows how you can use the free ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS to locate the largest groups in Active Directory. Read Dmitry’s Blog Here
Versions 6.0.x and 6.1 of ActiveRoles Server are approval aware, but working with approval tasks can be tricky. One of the most frequent requests was to perform custom reporting or automation of approval workflow; unfortunately this did not ship with ActiveRoles itself. In June we released an updated version of the ActiveRoles Management Shell for [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog has a great entry on how you can use ActiveRoles Server to audit changes made to Active Directory that are being done with PowerShell. http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/audit-powershell-changes-in-ad/
