Certificates

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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To PKI or not to PKI?

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

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To PKI or not to PKI?

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

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The Business Impact of Identity and Access Management with Forefront Identity Manager 2010

It’s nice to know its impact to the business. … Karl - Sep 4, 2011It’s nice to know its impact to the business. Thanks a lot for sharing that valuable information. business consultant

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The Business Impact of Identity and Access Management with Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Brad and I are going to cover the value of the whole Identity Management Stack from Microsoft and a few additional pieces from partners. **When: Thursday, May 28th **Where: Webinar/Online (Live Meeting links will be sent to all registrants) (Click Here to RSVP) Presenters: David Lundell – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Practice Director Brad Turner – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Sr. Technical Architect **Time: **9am-10am Pacific/Arizona 10am-11am Mountain

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New Certificate and Identity Blogger on the Loose

Marc Mac Donnell has just launched his blog on http://assurancesinidentity.blogspot.com/ and called it Assurances in Identity, and has posted the links to the CLM API documentation and case study about some work he did with MCS UK and CapGemini. I look forward to many more posts from Mark about some of the wizardry and trick in managing certificates and identities. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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IDM in pop culture

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.

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Tech Ed -- Lotsa Buzz ILM 2 and CLM

On Tuesday Bob Muglia made a big announcement – ILM 2 Beta 3 has been released. While the beta install is only 64 bit on Microsoft Connect you can download the 32-bit Virtual PC. At the ILM 2 booth at Tech Ed the Microsoft ILM Product Group and I were handing them out like crazy. Thanks to Nima for inviting me to participate at the booth. Best session I went was by Candy Stark from MS IT.

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