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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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TEC 2010 Europe – Sweet German Chocolate!

Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will… johnkaiser - Nov 2, 2010Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will want you back soon with Volume2!

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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.

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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

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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, 2011I 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

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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?

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