AD FS

Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 RTM now on MSDN and Technet

One of my fellow MVPs and Insight teammates Alessandro Cardoso (he runs one of our practices down under) announced on his blog that Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 RTM now on MSDN and Technet.

He goes on to mention the salient points around 2012 R2 for virtualization so I thought I would discuss some of the benefits for Active Directory and ADFS

One key thing is that ADFS on Windows Server 2012 R2 doesn’t require IIS so now it can and should be installed on domain controllers.

Continue reading

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.

Continue reading

Cloud computing single sign-on. Making ADFS work with Google and Salesforce (Nikita Ryumin)

This TEC session on the Directory Services track was short but sweet illustrating how to connect ADFS to Google and SalesForce.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

Continue reading

Recruiting

Hey readers, our Identity Practice at Ensynch is keeping us very busy. We would like to have more Identity consultants as part of our team. Come work with me and the rest of our fantastically talented Identity Team.

We are looking for people with experience in Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and people with experience in ADFS 2.0. We are looking for both Full Time Employees as well as people interested in being contractors for us.

Continue reading

Making Sense of the Cloud

clip_image002

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.

Continue reading

TEC 2010 Europe – Sweet German Chocolate!

Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will…

johnkaiser - Nov 2, 2010

Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will want you back soon with Volume2!

Continue reading

TEC 2010 Europe – Sweet German Chocolate!

Overall TEC 2010 Europe  in Dusseldorf Germany was pretty cool. I enjoyed the speakers reception on Sunday night and got to meet some folks from the SharePoint side some of whom are even interested in FIM and one of them bought my book!

For the first time I was able to bring my wife along to TEC! We enjoyed some good time in Dusseldorf including seeing Schloss (Palace) Benrather.

Monday we started off with a keynote from  Uday Hegde and Mark Wahl on the future of Directory and Identity Technologies. It was mostly an overview and demo of the various MSFT Identity technologies, FIM, RMS, ADFS etc. I did enjoy Mark’s well prepared video demo. He clearly had practiced the timing quite well, explaining as the mouse moved across the screen carrying out his demo.

Continue reading

ADFS v2 Test Report -- Found

Something has happened with the project liberty website and most links to it are now broken, including the link to the test results from last year which includes which profiles ADFS v2 passed. So here it is:

http://projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/4732/32917/file/SAML_3Q09_%20IOP_Test_Event_Final_Report.pdf

ADFS v2 passed: IDP Lite, SP Lite, eGov 1.5

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

Continue reading

Accelerate Your Business Now with Identity Management & Single-Sign-On (SSO)

I think they can really help in a lot of ways. Acc…

Karl - Sep 4, 2011

I think they can really help in a lot of ways. Accelerate your business with the help of these factors. Thanks a lot for sharing.

business consultant

Continue reading

Accelerate Your Business Now with Identity Management & Single-Sign-On (SSO)

  • Jun 10, 2010

    1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)

  • To Register follow this link

  • Christopher Yeich - Editor, Strategic Content - Ziff Davis Enterprise

    David Lundell - Identity Management Practice Director, Ensynch | Microsoft Identity Management MVP

    Jonathan Sander - IAM and Security Analyst - Quest Software

    Has your business experienced identity theft, with unauthorized access to your systems, data, and/or trade secrets?
    Have you lost business because your customers and/or employees didn’t have access when needed?
    How much time have you wasted in producing compliance/regulatory reports for various auditors?

    These are all real-life situations that business and IT leaders like you are experiencing every day. Breaches lead to millions—sometimes billions—in lost monies every year. Additionally, there’s also confusion, frustration, and lost productivity that organizations deal with every day as they fight to manage appropriate access to information and tools that employees, business partners, and customers actually need.
    Join Microsoft Identity MVP David Lundell of Ensynch, and Jonathan Sander, IAM and Security Analyst of Quest Software, for a candid presentation that uncovers ways you can protect and accelerate your business—as well as save money—with identity and secure access management (ISAM).
    Topics of discussion will include:

    Continue reading