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Active Directory at the DNC!
"In all, the convention's IT operation supports more than 1,000 Microsoft Active Directory users, 100 PCs, and 30 servers across six locations in Boston. In this sense, the convention itself was like a startup company with a $70 million operating budget." InformationWeek >Continue at source.
# posted by Robbie (7/30/2004 07:46:53 AM)
Article: Oblix Delivers Single Integrated Solution for Cost-Effective Identity Management and User Account Provisioning
"Oblix, the leading developer of identity-based security solutions, today announced COREid Provisioning, an integrated provisioning and workflow component for the Oblix COREid® identity management suite. Based on the industry's first template-based workflow, COREid Provisioning is a key pillar of Oblix's integrated solution for identity and web services management -- the market's first comprehensive out-of-the-box solution to create, enforce and monitor policies across Web applications and services."
# posted by Robbie (7/24/2004 08:49:23 PM)
Article: Vintela Acquires Wedgetail Communications and Closes Financing Round
"Vintela, a leading provider of innovative platform integration solutions for Unix and Windows, today announced that is has acquired Australian-based Wedgetail Communications. The acquisition of Wedgetail provides Vintela with a Kerberos-based single sign-on capability for J2EE environments using Microsoft Active Directory as their identity store."
# posted by Robbie (7/24/2004 08:45:46 PM)
Article: Apple Tiger Server Bridge to Interoperability
"Apple is introducing powerful interoperability functionality as well as new features unique to OS X -- both critical to enterprise appeal. For organizations with older Windows NT/2000 server infrastructures, Tiger includes a migration tool that can capture user and group account information from those legacy systems and populate the OS X directory services to replace servers being retired."
# posted by Robbie (7/24/2004 08:41:24 PM)
New tool: Quest Object Restore for Active Directory
Six months ago there were no tools for restoring deleted objects in AD, but since then at least three free tools have been developed by various sources. Quest has the most recent addition with a graphical tool for viewing and restoring deleted objects.
# posted by Robbie (7/19/2004 10:16:08 AM)
Article: Taming Kerberos
This article gives a good introduction to Kerberos and how to troubleshoot it on Windows.
# posted by Robbie (7/16/2004 10:12:55 AM)
New Download: Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) Service Blueprints
"The WSSRA Service Blueprints provide detailed design methodologies and considerations that need to be taken into account when designing enterprise infrastructure solutions."
One of the docs contained in this download is Directory_Service_SB.doc, which is a good design overview for building Active Directory infrastructures. 47 pages.
# posted by Robbie (7/16/2004 10:10:51 AM)
MS KB 246530 - Scripting Functions Provided by Iadstools.dll
If you are into scripting Active Directory, MS KB 246530 - Scripting Functions Provided by Iadstools.dll may be of some interest, which I just found out about on Thomas Lee's blog. IadsTools, while a little buggy, has some very useful functions. Many of them are scripting versions of the MS DS API functions.
The help doc that comes with IADsTools doesn't provide a simple list of all the IADsTools functions. It is a large Word doc that you have to scroll through to see what is available. This KB article gives you a list and short summary of each function.
# posted by Robbie (7/12/2004 08:44:53 AM)
Article: Unix to beef up Longhorn
It is speculation at this point, but this article says MS may include SFU with Longhorn.
"By including SFU in Windows, Microsoft could rapidly become the biggest supplier of Unix software if Longhorn proves a success, undermining traditional Unix vendors such as Sun, HP and IBM, as well as Linux vendors' enterprise offerings."
But SFU isn't really UNIX software, it is Windows software. Some if is meant to emulate UNIX software and some it is meant to help organizations migrate away from UNIX systems. Since SFU is free now anyway, I don't find this terribly exciting news.
# posted by Robbie (7/12/2004 08:36:13 AM)
Article: Monthly and Yearly Maintenance Tasks
"After all the designing, planning, and implementation work is done and the high-priced consultants have done their work, it's time for you to serve as a network administrator. Logically following last month's column, in which we discussed how to maintain a happy and healthy network through daily maintenance tasks, I follow it up this time with ten of the most important monthly and annual tasks."
Continue at source.
# posted by Robbie (7/09/2004 07:53:11 PM)
Article: Identity management takes on new shape
"DRIVEN by network security concerns, regulatory legislation and cost savings, identity management is climbing the corporate importance meter. The trend is seen in end user projects, in consolidation of vendors and product categories, and the appearance of broad suites of identity management software from Computer Associates, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems and others.
The question is, 'What kinds of risks will we be taking if we are without identity management?'" says Ahmed El-Haggan, CIO and professor of computer science at Coppin State University in Baltimore. "We are adding a lot of access that we didn't offer before so the question becomes, 'Can we live without identity management in the future?'"
Continue at source.
# posted by Robbie (7/09/2004 07:46:22 PM)
Article: Printer Location Tracking
Here is a good article on configuring printer location tracking.
# posted by Robbie (7/09/2004 07:42:19 PM)
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