More progress from Barcelona
Hello again. This is my second report from Barcelona and much has happened since Monday afternoon.
I have got a session this afternoon on the Microsoft version of application virtualisation. This is something that could be really good for Cobweb and though it is nothing new (citrix) it’ll be great to see what it can do.
As for what I have been up to - a session by Mark Minasi on name resolution and the future of WINS was really good. It also confirmed what I had always maintained... That GUI administration is far less impressive than command line stuff. ;) Check out www.minasi.com
Other subjects of interest are Server 2008 – this seems like a massive improvement in so many ways. The maturing ADFS technology may be of use to us too.
On a non Microsoft note for a moment VMware have some excellent products in the form of VDI and lab manager, I am a bit of a VMware fan so this is very interesting for me. Also I have seen at least five Apple mac laptops here that are bucking the trend....
It would be great if Cobweb could support "single sign on" where users could logon using their network username & password. www.SalesForce.com support this using a WebService running on the client network.
See if you can work out a way of doing this whilst you are sunning yourself in Spain!
Having multiple passwords is the most confusing thing for our users.
Posted by: Andrew Jones | November 14, 2007 at 03:05 PM
Thanks for your comments Andrew, we are definately looking to SSO and we think that ADFS may hold the answer. We already have the release candidate of Server 2008 back in Fareham so we'll keep you in the picure on this blog.
Posted by: Matthew White | November 14, 2007 at 04:04 PM