When you, as an organization, are looking at Microsoft’s Office 365 you will be faced with a choice in identity management. You can use online accounts, synchronize accounts between your on-premise infrastructure and Office 365 and you can synchronize and top that with Federation, allowing your users to use one set of credentials both on-premises ...

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0, part of the federation platform codenamed ‘Geneva’, has been released to the web today! ADFS helps IT enable users to collaborate across organizational boundaries and easily access applications on-premises and in the cloud, while maintaining application security. Through a claims-based ...

While last year, Jorge mentioned the 10 year anniversary of a production deployed Active Directory domain, today DirTeam is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Active Directory as a released product. The first deployed Active Directory domain According to Brian Puhl, on April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 include new features in Active Directory, that were announced and explained at Microsoft’s Tech∙Ed Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) conference for IT Professionals in Barcelona (Spain) from November 3rd, 2008 to November 7th, 2008 Note: This post represents the plans and progress made for ...

Some of the people that managed to stay awake while listening to Bill Gates CES Keynote speech heard him unveiling Microsoft plans for Windows Home Server. I've been digging into this product, which many people referred to as ''Quattro'' and more recently as ''Q'', because to me it means one thing: Active Directory benefits ...

As some of you might already have read Microsoft will stop delivering updates to SUS servers on wednesday December 6, 2006 This effectively gives it's administrators exactly six days to get their act together for patch tuesday on December 12, 2006.  The story on Update ServicesVersion 1.0Microsoft introduced Software Update Services ...