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Optimal IdM Launches Enhanced Virtual Identity Server For SharePoint(TM)

Posted on: Monday, 23 March 2009, 10:29 CDT

Providing Seamless Multi-Forest Single Sign-On For SharePoint Without Trusts and a Robust Security Model

HENDERSON, Nev., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- THE EXPERTS CONFERENCE -- Optimal IdM, LLC, a premier Identity & Access (IDA) Microsoft partner and a leading global provider of identity management software and consulting solutions, today announced an enhanced edition of its Virtual Identity Server for SharePoint (VIS for SharePoint(TM)).

In addition to its previous capabilities of providing organizations with the ability to rapidly and easily deploy SharePoint across multiple forests without the need for trusts and full Office integration, VIS for SharePoint now includes an advanced cross-forest Windows authentication module. This module leverages a user's existing Active Directory credentials, providing a seamless multi-forest Single Sign-On solution without requiring forest trusts. Users who are logged into an Active Directory domain are automatically authenticated to SharePoint when accessing the site. Users who have not authenticated to an Active Directory domain are prompted for a user id and password. This enables organizations to quickly and easily deploy one instance of SharePoint to external and internal users without creating a forest trust or requiring internal users to re-authenticate.

VIS for SharePoint also simplifies the security within SharePoint by providing administrators a dynamic role-based access control security model for SharePoint. Administrators are no longer required to manage security and group membership on an on-going basis. Instead, SharePoint administrators only need to define once, who should be included in a dynamic group based on business rules. The Virtual Identity Server for SharePoint dynamically computes the group membership on-the-fly and in real-time. As the data changes on the user, so does the group membership. The security within SharePoint is now defined once and changes automatically, significantly reducing administration, increasing security and lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Larry Aucoin, Managing Partner of Optimal IdM, shares, "For a long time, organizations and analysts have been looking for an efficient and cost-effective method to create the security model of who has access to what within SharePoint. This has been a deployment barrier for many organizations. Our VIS for SharePoint solution now provides organizations with the ability to establish access based on business rules that dynamically manage security within SharePoint. In addition, VIS for SharePoint allows for virtual static groups to have members that span multiple Active Directory forests without the need for trusts. In effect, VIS for SharePoint now manages the security for you and does not require administrators to manually perform this process".

Built-on the flagship platform of Optimal IdM's Virtual Identity Server, the enhanced VIS for SharePoint is the latest of the many Microsoft-centric point solutions developed by Optimal IdM and offered using its comprehensive management console. Others include: Virtual Identity Server for ILM/ILM2, Virtual Identity Server for Automated Compliance Management, Virtual Identity Server for Enterprise Group Management and Virtual Identity Server Reports for Active Directory.

Optimal IdM, LLC

Optimal IdM, LLC is a leading global provider of identity management software and consulting solutions. Headquartered in Land O' Lakes, Florida, Optimal IdM provides sales and services through regional offices across the United States and a growing network of resellers and distributors. Optimal IdM's customers include Fortune 1000 companies, as well as, Federal, State and Local Government agencies in more than 12 countries on 4 continents. Founded in 2005, Optimal IdM is privately held and has been profitable in every quarter since inception. For more information on our products and services, please visit our website at http://www.optimalidm.com.

Optimal IdM and Optimal IdM Software products or service names are trademarks of Optimal IdM and Optimal IdM Software. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.

SOURCE Optimal IdM, LLC

Source: PR Newswire

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