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.

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.

To register visit: http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=10866&searchoff=true&technology=&prod=183&prodfamily=&loc

1. Automate user access throughout a user’s identity life-cycle (provisioning, re-provisioning, de-provisioning)
2. Extend cross-platform provisioning with ActiveRoles Quick Connect
3. Enforce and document a least-privilege model such that users get the right access – nothing more, nothing less
4. Empower Application/Business/Data owners to control access to their sensitive apps/data/resources and enforce periodic review and certification
5. Reduce the time spent gathering and consolidating audit data by having push-button reporting

To register for the webinar go to http://www.quest.com/common/default.aspx?backtourl=/common/registration.aspx?requestdefid=24167.

The User Group will be held at the tail end of the TEC conference and participants don’t need to sign up for TEC to attend. There is still room if you are going to be in Berlin next week and would like to attend. For details see my previous post User Group TEC Berlin.

“From an Active Directory management perspective, our Active Directory tools business was very strong in Q2. ActiveRoles Server continues to deliver on the promise of providing a secure way to manage AD and provision users across the enterprise. AD management continues to be the core of our growing identity in access management products family, which we term the QuestOne strategy.” For the full transcript of the call visit http://seekingalpha.com/article/155229-quest-software-inc-q2-2009-earnings-call-transcript.

Having been responsible for the ActiveRoles family of products for the past 5 years – it is rewarding to see that despite the economic climate – we continue to lead the industry.  This is a testament to to the hard work and commitment of entire ActiveRoles team to deliver solutions that address the most difficult problems IT faces today. The most exciting part (for me personally) is that we  already have an industry leading product, but we are now planning and developing our next generation of solutions that will absolutly blow your socks off.