Geneva

Webinar: How Microsoft Geneva Streamlines Business

When:
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
10:30 to 11:30 (PST)
12:30 to 1:30 (CST)
1:30 to 2:30 (EST)

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Presenters:
David Lundell, ILM MVP
Identity Management
Practice Leader, Ensynch

Jonathan Sander
IAM and Security Analyst
Quest Software

Webinar: How Microsoft Geneva
Streamlines Business

- Learn How to Reap the Benefits of True Web
Single-Sign-On and Federation
Has your organization been forced to deploy one-off solutions to solve login or compliance problems with a newly deployed technology?
Are your employees tired of using multiple logins for all kinds of access needs?
Having trouble managing shared resources users both inside and outside of your organization?
Using open platform identity management solution Microsoft Geneva, you can save money and make your business more efficient today, and also make it more easily scalable for the future.
I would like to invite you to our latest exclusive “no frills” webinar: “How Microsoft Geneva Streamlines Business,” the 1st in a 4-part Identity Management Webinar Series from Ensynch’s Identity Management Practice Leader and Microsoft Identity Management MVP, David Lundell, and Quest Software IAM and Security Analyst, Jonathan Sander.
This webinar is designed for business leaders, and will present business value propositions for the Microsoft Geneva framework. Whether identity management is a major concern for your organization or if you are simply curious about using Microsoft Geneva as an asset to help your business, this webinar is for you.
Webinar Agenda:
- Yikes! The business pain points of managing lots of identities

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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.

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Live ID's are now Open ID's, Geneva supports SAML 2.0

At the PDC Microsoft’s Kim Cameron and colleague Bertocci Vittorio announced that Microsoft Live is now an Open Id provider. Additionally, when signing into Live you can use Information Cards (Info Card, Card Space, Geneva Card Space).

They also demonstrated the new Geneva Framework (formerly known as Zermat) – essentially a successor to Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Federation Services, and showed it supporting SAML 2.0 the “protocol” not just SAML 2.0 the token.

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