Oracle just put out an
interesting whitepaper on how to use their virtual directory product with Sharepoint. A few interesting scenarios:
- Allow users to authenticate to SharePoint with Windows credentials but control access based on job codes maintained in a HR database (without having to sync!)
- Allow a SharePoint workspace to be used by two different business units who each maintain their own AD domain
On another note...sharepoint has been getting a lot of attention from the identity folks, hasn't it? Microsoft was promising a new "Identity Portal" in ILM 2, until they blew their release date by A YEAR(!!). Courion's been marketing
their solution for Sharepoint as well, which is basically an attestation/segregation of duties play. Bitkoo has their
fine grained authorization management stuff for Sharepoint.
I wonder why the trend? Hmmm....
Well, here's a
billion reasons.
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