Sep 3rd, 2010
by Neil Coughlan.
One thing that you may have missed while enjoying your summer vacation is that Tools4FIM has FIMalyser and a free Function Evaluator tool available. These tools are designed to enable faster, smarter and more accurate deployment of FIM2010.
Check out www.tools4fim.com
The FIMalyzer is available now and enables you to view, review, analyse and document your FIM 2010 project. The FIMalyzer analyses the configuration of FIM 2010 installations (portal, sync and code components) and presents the output either interactively, or in the form of a Word report. The report provides the kind of documentation that would produce significant man days to develop with the added facility to automatically update with each change. But that’s not the best part, the interactive view is a whole new way of viewing a project which allows you to navigate around the configuration components to provide a clear view of the configuration. Transforming your view of the project from a potentially complex matrix to an interactive map.
Download the tool now and test it out with a sample project that’s included:
Download and Video demos
Tools4FIM also offers free components and has a Function Evaluator available, this workflow offers a wider range of functions than the built-in one.
Function Evaluator Download and Info
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Tagged: FIM · FIM 2010 · FIM Documentation · FIM Tools · Function Evaluator · Tools4FIM
Sep 2nd, 2010
by Neil Coughlan.
Just enjoying the last of the summer wine, picking berries and making crumble. Its no time to be sad, as Conference season is fast approaching, and it’s not just the politicians in Brighton and Blackpool. We have the “European Identity and Access Summit 2010″ at Microsoft in the UK to look forward to.
European Identity and Access Summit 2010 – “Identity and Security on Premise and in the Cloud”
UK – September 22 & 23, Thames Valley Park, Reading – Full Agenda and Info Here
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Posted in: Events, News.
Tagged: ADFS · Cloud Security · Data Protection · FIM 2010 · Identity and Access · Identity and Security · RMS
Jul 5th, 2010
by Neilsen-Marsh.
From where I’m sitting in the Welsh hills you would be forgiven for thinking that someone had made it into the finals of the FIFA Football World Cup as I can distinctly hear the sound of vuvuzelas in the distance over the border in England – but in fact it’s actually the celebrations taking place in Oxford as Microsoft announces its Partner of the Year finalists.
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Tagged: partner of the year
Jun 16th, 2010
by Greg Watts.
Our regular blog readers may remember the post from OCG Senior Architect, Simon Veale, who is working on the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project which aims to crack the 1000mph barrier! (If you missed it, you can read it here.) In his role as Education Ambassador Simon spends time in schools using the Bloodhound SSC project to motivate and encourage our future engineers, scientists, technologists and mathematicians.
In this latest – and I must say very heart-warming as well as interesting – instalment, Simon reports back from one of his recent trips to a UK school where it seems a healthy dose of curiosity, enthusiasm and competitive spirit is very much alive. I encourage you to read on… Continue reading →
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Tagged: Bloodhound SSC
Jun 9th, 2010
by Darren Bonehill.
In my last blog, “To Encrypt or not to Encrypt. That is the question.” I mentioned the ever-growing news stories you hear where unprotected data has been stolen or mistakably left behind in a Taxi or on a train.
More and more companies are starting to deploy hard disk encryption for mobile devices via various third party products – and this is good - but these applications only encrypt the data whilst at rest; in other words while it is located on that device. If a document is copied onto an external device – such as a USB or CD-ROM – then the data is decrypted. And if these devices are then lost or stolen, the data on them is available for anybody to read!
In this blog we are going to take a brief look at how you can protect data when it is ‘on the move’ as well as ‘at rest’. Continue reading →
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Jun 3rd, 2010
by Darren Bonehill.
In today’s world horror stories abound about data theft and the damaging effects of people leaving data unprotected. This raises questions about whether a company should utilize encryption technology to protect their data and secure their Intellectual Property rights. Many organizations have to adhere to various regulatory compliances for data protection, so in this blog I’ll take a look at the technologies that assist in data protection and the areas of key management and disaster recovery. In later blogs I’ll explore some of these areas in greater depth. But for now, here is a high level view on the subject… Continue reading →
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Posted in: CLM, Technical.
Tagged: AD RMS · encryption · HSM · Rights Management · SafeNet
May 20th, 2010
by Neil Coughlan.
Oxford Computer Group are at the NISC conference this year in the guise of Neil Coughlan. It was fun getting here. I survived a flight through a volcanic ash cloud, to then be immersed in cloud computing, information assurance, economics and virtual golf! (Sadly, not enough time for the real thing). Find out more about day one at the 11th year of NISC in St Andrew.
I travelled up to Scotland for NISC 11 and being a NISC virgin I didn’t quite know what to expect. But this is my kind of event! Lots of interesting speakers, healthy debate and a good social atmosphere all with the backdrop of st Andrews and its beautiful coastline.
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Tagged: Access Gateway · Cloud · Identity · Identity and Access · Microsoft Forefront · NISC · OCG · Oxford Computer Group · UAG
Apr 20th, 2010
by Hugh Simpson-Wells.
We just wanted to highlight the latest white paper from Hugh Simpson-Wells at Oxford Computer Group
| This Whitepaper from Oxford Computer Group examines Claims-based Identity and FIM – are they friends or foes? This paper considers two viable strategies for solving the “identity problem”, and in asking whether they are somehow competitors, concludes that they are not merely co-operative, they are symbiotic |
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Tagged: Claims · FIM · FIM 2010 · WhitePaper FIM
Apr 7th, 2010
by Blain Checkley.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to the “big” city of New York. It continues to be a city that results in sensory overload and so many options of things you want to do. I stayed in Times Square so I had lights, people and tonnes of good restaurants around me. So much food, so little time. I do have to admit, I am a foodie so (but more on that in a bit)…
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