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Directories, Virtual-Directories, and Vendor Independence
Nishant Kaushik has some interesting thoughts about the Virtual-Directory vs Meta-Directory debate. He makes some good points, and has this to say about vendor lock-in: Well, from the standpoint of a...
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Halfway converted
Clayton Donley makes a very compelling argument that there is significant value is using a virtual directory even if an application only needs to access a single directory. So call me converted on that...
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Authentication Lock-in
Jackson Shaw adds some interesting thoughts to the Virtual-Directory vs Directory debate here. He points out that the real lock-in comes with authentication: And, finally, what’s the big deal about...
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Accounts and Identities
Nishant Kaushik makes a very good point in his latest post on the Virtual Directory vs AD debate: Here is my point. Martin says “AD is the directory…”. I say that “AD is a directory…”, and that too...
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Two for the show
Ian Yip has more yet another humorous summary of the virtual-meta-active-directory-identity-bus-hub-proxie debate. You can catch Part II here and Part I here. I almost want to keep this debate going...
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Phillips versus flat-head, for real this time
A while back I wrote this post comparing the argument between Virtual Directories and Meta-directories to an argument comparing Phillips and flat-head screw drivers. I forgot about it until I noticed...
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OptimalIdM and WIF
OptimalIdM has announce support for Microsoft WIF (you can get more info here). What they have done is pretty interesting. The have created an STS that front ends their Virtual Directory. This allows a...
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Pulling LDAP
Mark Diodati sums up the recent SPML threads here. But one questions that needs to be answered, if not SPML then what? One alternative that has been put forward by Mark Diodati, Mark Wilcox, and others...
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Enter the Migrator
One common business case we get is to migrate from various directory servers to AD. This is usually an issue of per user license cost but lower maintenance is also a factor. Companies are realizing...
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Polar opposites
I recently saw two polar opposite recommendations; one from Jeff Atwood begging you to not write code; and one from Radovan Semančík suggesting that the only practical software to use is open source...
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