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.
AD RMS on Windows Server 2008 R2 adds a really slick feature blogged about here: Group Expansion for Federated Users Prior to R2 to issue a use license to a federated user they need to specifically be granted permissions. With Windows Server 2008 R2 you can create a contact matching the external federated user and then place the contact in the group and then they have the same RMS permissions as that group.
Hey Dave, I didn’t notice your blog before. Go… Unknown - Jun 0, 2009Hey Dave, I didn’t notice your blog before. Good work. Gimme a call… Lets have lunch sometime soon. It would be nice to see you. justin harris justin@jwheel.com
When should one implement a Public Key Infrastructure and when should one not? Obviously we implement a PKI to solve a problem, usually around security, enabling secure communications with a web server, multi-factor authentication, encryption. A PKI solution can be very versatile, but it comes at a price in setup and maintenance. But what alternatives do we have? Let’s examine each problem in turn Problem PKI difficulties Alternatives Benefits for Alternatives
Some days I am amazed at how deeply the identity management concepts have penetrated into popular culture: “Mr Big Stuff, who do you think you are?” clearly relates to an authentication issue or authorization issue. “Won’t get fooled again” by the WHO is clearly making a reference to a Certificate Revocation List, now that I have revoked your certificate you won’t be authenticated again. One area where pop culture is still shockingly uninformed still need help is in asset protection.
As I was architecting and assembling the Identity All Up workshop (part of the 2008 Directory Experts Conference see the review by Felix Gaehtgens, an analyst for Kuppinger Cole) designed to expose the attendees (or delegates) to all facets of the Microsoft Identity Access Platform, Lori Craw, from Microsoft referred to this as the “Grand Unified Demo”. I chuckled, instantly catching the reference to the still undiscovered Grand Unified Field theory that eluded Einstein and even today’s theoretical physicists.
