It runs on Windows Server and it is one of the main elements present into a Microsoft infrastructure.

It often happens that one of the first requirements of an identity  manager project is to integrate Microsoft Exchange in order to manage, into the global/centralized user workflow, mailboxes and mail contacts as well.

Its cmdlets let you manage computers and all server-side Microsoft applications (e.g. Exchange, SharePoint, FileServer, Active Directory, ...).

Windows PowerShell gives you the possibility to perform all common administrative tasks ... including provisioning operations! ...

Recently, working on a library of OpenJPA's pluggable components providing support for Microsoft SQLAzure, I needed to add some new configuration parameters.

New features introduced are:

1. PostgreSQL support (Issue 13)
2. Enable/Disable support (Issue 15)

You can find more information about configuration parameters onto the updated wiki page.

Often Active Directory is used to centralize all the information about authentication and access to the services/resources of a certain network domain.

Problem always arises when the number of such resources becomes so that high that groups are not an handful mean any more. Provisioning, deprovisioning and [business] roles management easily become expensive (in terms of effort and time) and risky (in terms of access permissions) operations.