In this first part of a two-part video recorded at the Cloud Identity Summit, PingIdentity’s CTO Patrick Harding talks about the coming explosion cloud services vendors, the need for a scalable way of handling them, and why we need to be limiting our use of passwords.
Patrick Harding Interview: Part 1 of 2 (YouTube)
Follow Sean Deuby on Twitter at @shorinsean. Foll...By Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP and Founder of PolicyPak Software
People ask me all the time, “Hey Moskowitz… why did you choose Group Policy [as a focal point for your career]?” And my answer is pretty simple. I’m a control freak.
I chose Group Policy as a technology focus because I love the idea of being in charge over 100, 1000, or 10,000 or more users. I love watching administrators set up Group Policy and see the looks on their faces after they get the results of increased security,...
We've received word that Apple's latest operating system for the iPhone -- iOS 4 -- is now available. The download should take an hour or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
More information about iOS 4 (and some step-by-step upgrade instructions) can found on the Apple website.
Are you planning to...Monday, February 02, 2009
Justifying IT investments is hard work. Trust me, I’ve been in the business of doing IT investment justifications for over 20 years and I am still surprised at how difficult it is to make such a simple proposition.
Why is this so hard? In general, I find that it is simply a matter of communications. In any relationship, you can trace most relationship faults to deficiencies in communication. In IT’s case, it is more of an issue of vernacular, or choosing the right words to communicate wi... 
Today I'm attending a Microsoft technical reviewer's workshop at TechEd 2010. Parts of the workshop are under NDA for various future reveal dates, so I can't write about everything. One thing I can mention is the ongoing development and improvements to Windows Server 2008, signified by a session that outlined the increasingly robust ability of Windows Server 2008 to serve as a platform for larg...
As popular as SharePoint has become over the past few years, many IT professionals are still grappling with the optimal way to deploy and manage it. To help shed some light on the topic of SharePoint deployment, I sat down with two SharePoint experts earlier this week at TechEd 2010: Quest Software Solutions Architect Curtis Kelly (photo, left) and Senior SharePoint Architect Joel Oleson.
...  Sometimes a decision to adopt a particular technology solution to solve a business problem seems obvious. You have a problem and you have technology options to choose from. Pick the best one for the problem at hand, and … problem solved!
But if you approach the problem and the technology that can solve it in isolation from your entire IT infrastr... Wednesday, January 21, 2009
One of my ongoing pet peeves when working with IT organizations is the confusion between “adoption” vs. “deployment.” To help pinpoint the confusion, let me start with an example. If you have Microsoft InfoPath installed on your laptop, by my definition, InfoPath is deployed. InfoPath is a great tool for creating forms, connecting them to data sources to capture data and perform business workflows. The issue is that you never use it. So although you’ve deployed InfoPath, because you are not...
 I’ve just finished presenting a webcast ( https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032397348&role=attend&pw=49211D6C) about Microsoft’s Unified Communications (UC) solutions and finding the right level of information for this webcast was tricky.
When we put our ...
The educational market has long been a province of Microsoft and its hardware partners, driven mainly by lower costs and the huge ecosystem of educational vendors that use Microsoft Windows as their platform of choice. That has begun to gradually change over the last few years, with Google beginning to make inroads against the long-established dominance of Microsoft's Office suite in the educational system. One of the largest recent Google wins has been the Oregon State Department of Education... |
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