Because the legacy systems that are out there it may never reach 100 per cent but of course every quarter we are releasing more products and more technologies and creating more partners to integrate more and more of the enterprise into a directory...
The university had been running a disparate mix of Microsoft Windows NT domains, Novell Netware trees, Active Directory and Unix platforms because De Montfort's network had developed at individual department level.
ADFS lets users create trust relationships with other Active Directory users and enable authentication across corporate boundaries. Price said: "The STS offers a unified model for managing credentials across different types of authentication methods.
Microsoft's Active Directory - so the companies' software has integrated sign-on and federated identity management mechanisms. But the companies will work to better integrate directory services, database software and systems management tools.
The project aims to help users manage the plethora of internet logins and passwords by integrating identity, profile and relationship information used across authentication systems on the net. There are other efforts to integrate identity...
Skype is also researching single sign-on authentication, and is looking to integrate this into lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) interoperability between Skype and unnamed third party software.