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Setup FREE Syncronization from AD to AD/ADLDS in 15 minutes or less!

Bob — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:17:02 +0000

What is ActiveRoles Quick Connect Express? With the latest release of ActiveRoles Quick Connect we bundled the Synchronization engine, the AD connector and the ADLDS (formerly ADAM) connector together. The big news here is that we labeled this core piece “Quick Connect Express” and you can download and used it to sync objects between those systems. For those of you who remember Microsoft’s IIFP – this package was my way of picking up the torch when Microsoft stopped updating IIFP several years ago.

Major benefits

After you install the application it takes less than 15 minutes to setup a sync between systems; so this thing is extremely easy to use
Synchronize Users, Groups, Group memberships and almost all other objects in AD
Built-in rules for user name generation and attribute transformation
Efficient Group Membership Synchronization
Sync Passwords between systems using the password capture agent for Windows clients
Hosting company and consultant friendly
Integrated PowerShell scripting for extending functionality

Download it here http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/quickconnect-express-for-active-directory.aspx

Other free stuff from my team

SPML web service for provisioning AD or ActiveRoles Server http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/spml.aspx
PowerShell commandlets for AD and ActiveRoles Server http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/extensible-platform.aspx

Freeware use - becuase this is freeware Quest Support is not included without an actual purchase of the software. We do have an excellent forum where the answers to basic questions may have already been answered and of course you can always post a question of your own. http://activeroles.inside.quest.com/index.jspa

Moving from Group to Access Management

Allison — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:37:15 +0000

Managing access to applications and data resources can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. IT administrators are often asked to grant access to sensitive data without knowing the business justification why a user should have it. The result may be inappropriate authorization, access delays, or groups that are bloated, outdated and inaccurate. This lack of accountability may cause security breaches and compliance audit failure. During this archived webcast, you’ll see how ActiveRoles Server enables:

Access Accountability
Authorizing groups today using roles and attribute access control (ABAC) to resources
Authorizing groups in the future with emerging technologies
Moving from Group Management to Access Governance and the keys to success

Presented by:
Robert Bobel, Platform Director of Product Management, Quest Software
Jason Barnett, Partner and Information Security Practice Manager, Ingenuity Associates,

View Archived Webcast

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.

Quick Connect for Online Services goes gold!

Bob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:09 +0000

Shortly after my receiving the notification about Quick Connect for Lotus Notes, I received a note that Quick Connect for Online Services went gold also. The vision for Quick Connect for Online Services is that it will provision cloud based application like Google Premier which provides Internet based applications and collaboration. Like ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus Notes, Quick Connect for Online Services will be publicly available in July.

Quick Connect for Lotus Notes goes gold!

Bob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:00:18 +0000

The presents in my inbox just keep arriving. A few moments ago I received notice that ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus notes went gold today. Now that I have recieved the Gold code from my development team, work on delivering the public release can begin. The public release process involves coordinating the various groups within Quest so that everyone is ready to execute on delivering this awsome software to the market. This process takes some time so look for a formal public release in July.

Quick Connect 4.0.3 goes gold!

Bob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:47:59 +0000

I had breakfast with a colleague from Microsoft this morning and so I was late getting into the office today. When I arrived I had a little present waiting for me in my inbox; the Quick Connect 4.0.3 gold code. This was a surprise treat because it was delivered a little earlier than expected. This is the third maintenance release of Quick Connect 4.0 and is primarily being delivered to support two new connectors, Quick Connect for Lotus Notes and Quick Connect for Online Services. Now that the final code has been delivered from my development team we can begin the tremendous amount of work it takes for the public release which should be in July.

If you want to see how Quick Connect can provison or deprovison systems in typically under 10 minutes take a look at the QC integration page http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/integration.aspx