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Novell Adds WS-Federation to Access Manager




January 23, 2009 —  Novell has released version 3.1 of its Access Manager with support for the WS-Federation specification, providing single sign-on to Web applications for users outside a specific server’s identity store. With this release, Novell has focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s infrastructure, particularly SharePoint.

“Administrators are struggling to manage identities for different user communities, both within an enterprise, or for customers or partners,” said Lee Howarth, product line manager at Novell. “These admins have to represent each identity, and it’s a real headache.”

Howarth said that Novell worked closely with Microsoft on WS-Federation support to enable interoperability with Microsoft’s Active Directory technology. This enables a company’s different units, customers and partners to gain access to a Microsoft infrastructure, running such applications as SharePoint. Users, Howarth explained, “can be in [an internal] identity store or any federated identity specification, and [Access Manager] transforms those identities into a set of claims that are passed up to SharePoint via Active Directory Federated Services.”

With Access Manager, users can leverage the company’s proxy-based Access Gateway for authentication, single sign-on and personalization, Howarth said. The browser-based tool enables administrators to quickly navigate through all identity components to ensure access is controlled, he added.


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