Bob's Identity Management Blog » Quest Password Manager http://www.bobbobel.com "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Syrus Publilius Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:47:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Quick Connect and Quest Password Manager http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-and-quest-password-manager/ http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-and-quest-password-manager/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0000 Bob http://www.bobbobel.com/?p=781 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.

]]> http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-and-quest-password-manager/feed/ 0 Quick Connect 4.5 GA! http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-4-5-ga/ http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-4-5-ga/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:31:37 +0000 Bob http://www.bobbobel.com/?p=775 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.

]]> http://www.bobbobel.com/quick-connect-4-5-ga/feed/ 0 Quest Password Manager 4.6 ships! http://www.bobbobel.com/quest-password-manager-4-6-ships/ http://www.bobbobel.com/quest-password-manager-4-6-ships/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:35:26 +0000 Bob http://www.bobbobel.com/?p=744 My friend Stuart Harrison just announced that a new version of Quest Password Manager has just been released.  This new version contains several really cool integration points with ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRole Quick Connect to provide a seamless cross-platform credential management solution.

Other new features include:

  • Windows 7 support
  • Windows 2008 R1/R2 support
  • IE8 support
  • Captcha
  • Granular minimum/maximum password age
  • Quick Connect Integration providing cross platform password management
  • Integration with ActiveRoles Server Web UI (Help Desk site)
  • Reporting support for SQL/SRS 2008
  • Defender Integration enabling use of OTP to change password/unlock account and now for initial registration with QPM
  • Various reporting enhancements including email and Help Desk stats

    • For more information see Stuart’s blog: http://stuharrison.blogspot.com/2009/12/quest-password-manager-46-launched.html

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