Talking Identity

Getting the Last Word In on Metadirectories

By Nishant Kaushik on July 7, 2008 2:04 PM

I doubt it. I doubt that there will be a last word on metadirectories for a long time to come. Technology that works has a way of sticking around, even when they have outlived their purpose, and are forced into...

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Virtual Directories + Provisioning = No more Metadirectory

By Nishant Kaushik on March 21, 2008 12:21 PM

There has been an interesting discussion going on regarding the fate of metadirectory technology. Dave Kearns talked about it in his newsletter recently (see: Is the metadirectory dead). In it, he quoted Jackson Shaw, who brought it up as context...

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Analyzing Microsoft's approach to provisioning

By Nishant Kaushik on May 17, 2006 3:14 PM

Gartner's MQ report on provisioning calls out the different approach that Microsoft has taken to the provisioning space. Termed the "enterprise access management" approach, it essentially advocates the externalized authn and authzn model that requires less pushing of data into...

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