FIM R2 Showdown -- Classic vs. Declarative

Come join me at The Experts Conference 2012 in San Diego April 29 - May2 where I will be presenting:

FIM R2 Showdown — Classic vs. Declarative
Speaker: David Lundell

Is there room enough for both in this town? FIM 2010 R2 has two ways of accomplishing many tasks: Classic and Declarative. Attend this showdown to learn when to saddle up Classic vs. when to saddle up with Declarative Sync Rules and why. Dissenting opinions politely welcomed — join the controversy! Discussion will take into account performance, ease of implementation and maintainability.

My colleague Lutz Mueller-Hipper has been selected to present three sessions:

Data Loss Prevention with RMS: 2012 the Year of RMS
Speaker: Lutz Mueller-Hipper

In this session we talk about the reasons for RMS and the battle against PKI. RMS is growing up, so let’s see what we got with Mac Office, for unsupported documents formats and automatic data classification tools. We will also cover what is new with RMS in Windows 8 and RMS in the Cloud.

EZ PKI and PKI Housekeeping
Speaker: Lutz Mueller-Hipper

It is time to use PKI to simplify computer management, and this session will go over design recommendations and security aspects for scenarios with Wifi and VPN. Don’t just do it, do it right, and see why and how. The second part of this session will discuss user certificates in the wild, how to publish them securely with AD LDS and what needs to be done for housekeeping in Active Directory for PKI.

Public/Private Cloud Application Security and Single Sign On with BYOD –
Tear Down the Walls
Speaker: Lutz Mueller-Hipper

The IT business is moving rapidly to cloud based solutions. Want to know what that means to the traditional network infrastructure and how you can run an open but secured network? The session will look at all those things from an application level and authentication in enterprises with classic SSO and federation.

For all of the Directory and Identity Abstracts

TEC 2012 call for papers open for 2 more days

The Experts Conference Call for Papers still open until Nov 18th

http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2012/submit-a-paper/ 

For general info: http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2012/

I have attended at spoke at this conference since 2007. I love it. It is a great experience and loads of great in-depth technical training by top experts on Directory & Identity, as well as SharePoint, Exchange, Virtualization & Cloud and PowerShell Deep Dive. Also come and learn about the inside joke dealing with the rubber chicken.

Making Sense of the Cloud

 

National Roadshow Series:  2 High Value Sessions in 1 Business Focused Technology Briefing from Leading Industry Experts at Ensynch and Microsoft It’s time to make sense of the plethora of rhetoric around the term "Cloud." It's time to cut through the hype and figure out how to leverage the latest Dynamic Private Cloud and Public Cloud technologies and provide real value to your business. Why Attend? Learn how organizations worldwide are realizing tremendous business value as they begin to migrate portions of their business to securely provide IT as a service through private and public cloud solutions.  Unlike many product-focused technology events, this event is focused on business use cases and solutions.  You will leave this event having gained real value and perspective that you can immediately apply to your business's information technology strategy and roadmap. Complimentary Steakhouse Lunch  will be served at noon to all attendees present. We recommend attending both event sessions, but you can choose to attend the one that will provide you with the most value. Session 1- Building your Business Cloud (10:30 AM) How to Makeover your Infrastructure by providing IT as a Service through Virtualization, Next Generation Management, and Automation solutions from Microsoft. Session 1- Intended Audience: Business focused IT Executives and Leaders, Infrastructure and Desktop Management Directors and Managers, Identity Management and Security Directors and Managers. Products Relevant in Session 1: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Systems Center Suite, Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Windows InTune, Quest vWorkspace, Quest One Identity Manager, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Lunch Break: (12:00 PM) Complimentary steakhouse lunch will be served. Session 2- Consuming your Business Cloud (1:00 PM) How to makeover your productivity and business intelligence platforms powered by SharePoint 2010 and SQL to enable One Place to View the Facts, Collaborate, and Provide a Consumer Cloud Experience at Work.  Session 2- Intended Audience: Business and IT Executives, SharePoint/Collaboration/Web Directors and Managers, Business Intelligence Leaders and Stakeholders. Products Relevant in Session 2: SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Lync 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Azure, Windows Azure Choose Your City. RSVP Today. April 27, 2011 - Irvine, CA  (Ruth's Chris Steakhouse) April 28, 2011 - San Diego, CA (Donovan's Steakhouse) May 4, 2011 - Parsippany, NJ  (Ruth's Chris Steakhouse) May 5, 2011 - New York, NY (Park Avenue-Spring Restaurant) May 11, 2011 - Phoenix, AZ (Donovan's Steakhouse)

ADFS v.2 shipped

Active Directory Federation Services v2 Ships!

This is awesome stuff – with ADFS v2 we can help you setup SSO with your SaaS vendors.

 

Here is an example that has been rendered generic.

ADFS 2.0 supports SAML 2.0 (the idp lite profile and rdp lite profile) which opens up many federation doors and WIF allows us to write custom security token services (sts) just in case the idp lite and rdp lite profile support isn’t up to handling the interaction.

H30, Geneva Cola, Sitrus and Orange Fizz

Back in business school I was a connoisseur of fine commercials.  Recently I watched a commercial for Lipton Ice Tea (note I am a teetotaler who doesn't drink tea) and I have to admire their cleverness in coming up with names for competitor products (see the title) in their "Lipton Tea, I think I love you" commercial. (Lyrics here)

Really the names are clever although the best is the H30 -- I just love it, a chemical compound that as far as I can tell can't exist, but we all know they are making fun of flavored water. Of course I also love ordering water by requesting Di-Hydrogen-Oxide.

OK they didn't actually have Geneva Cola it was really Milan Cola, but since I really wanted to blog about Geneva and how "I think I love [it]" well I couldn't resist the name substitution.

Now before I pester you with anymore puns let me tell you why I love Geneva, Microsoft's next evolutionary leap with Federation and SSO.

Of late there has been a lot of buzz about Cloud computing. But there are obstacles, when you host applications in the cloud or use SaS type applications you wind up creating new identity stores.

With Geneva your identities will be almost ubiquitous, in that you can use it anywhere and your applications built using the Geneva framework will be able to accept and use identities from anywhere that you decide to trust.  It won't matter anymore where your applications, are in Microsoft's cloud, your cloud, or your partner's cloud.

In short if Cloud Computing will transform the industry then Geneva is the way to get there. It certainly lowers some of the barriers

Additionally, we can use Geneva to provide SSO for apps within an organization.

Now to tie in the commercial, since Geneva also supports the SAML 2.0 protocol it even inter-operates with Hot Ball of GAS SSO, and "Fiction Books Access Manager"