Single sign-on. Symbolically at least, it may be a kind of grail for IT staffers who today need to administer thousands of user accounts -- often a jumble of weakly-related identities stored in a ...

To make it easier for employees to access all their mission-critical applications in the cloud, many enterprises are turning to single sign-on solutions, the most popular of which is Microsoft (News - ...

Many companies rely on Microsoft products, including Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, OWA, and RDP, in their business processes. That's why the importance of two-factor authentication (2FA or MFA) for ...

At its TechEd conference, Microsoft is pushing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as the foundation for identity in cloud computing environments. At its TechEd conference this week, Microsoft ...

Bill Gates and Microsoft kicked off the 2006 RSA conference in San Jose this year, and a key part of their message was identity federation using the WS-Federation standard. The WS-Federation Web ...

I've got a customer who has 40 users on Office 365 E1, recently transitioned from BPOS. Right now they don't have an on-premises server at all; therefore, no AD - just workgroup with a QNAP NAS.

Managing user access in businesses today is something like playing traffic cop in an intersection of a thousand roads. From Web-based applications to homegrown programs, from desktop PCs to the latest ...

If you’ve ever tried to develop an online solution that requires a login, you know it isn’t difficult to accomplish — as long as you handle the login ...

Microsoft has released Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, a key component of its effort to provide single sign-on federated identity management across enterprise domains and to cloud services.