Rohan Pinto at Sun has been working on a very cool project, named PoSSO, that makes the OpenSSO Admin console available on the iPhone. The app allows you to perform basic help desk administration tasks like create user, change password, reset password right from your iPhone. Check it out. It’s pretty unbelievable.
In our OpenSSO Express 7 release we added a new feature focused on allowing people to configure both OpenSSO and Google Apps in minutes for simple authentication. Below is a video of me doing so with the latest build. My goal was to do it in under 4 minutes. If you want to test it out download Express 7 and our Google Apps Starter Kit to begin.
In our ever expanding effort to grow our open source identity community, Sun now has an open source initiative to support Sun Identity Manager. That’s right, you heard it. Sun Identity Manager (IDM) has moved closer to the world of open source by launching the Identity Connectors Project, a new open-source alternative to Identity Manager’s proprietary resource adapters.
The Identity Connector Project is an open source community focused solely on developing open source resource connectors to work with Sun Identity Manager. One of the biggest hurdles in the world of provisioning is keeping up with the endless cycle of new connectors needed to provision resources. The pipeline for creating new connectors is endless. The Identity Connectors Project eases this pain creating a strong community where Sun, system integrators, customers and even competitors can build open source connectors to work with Sun Identity Manager and other 3rd party products that choose to interoperate with the Identity Connector Framework.
Sign-up for the new project and begin contributing today!
Our Sun Identity Management website has a new look. Check it out at www.sun.com/identity. Great job to all who pulled this together.
It’s been a bit of a darkout period for me in the world of blogging, but I’m back now and better than ever.
My role has changed at Sun so I be focused more on talking about all of identity now rather than just OpenSSO. I’m now Chief Identity Strategist at Sun (Chief Muckity Muck?, Chief Slacker?) and I focus on the strategy for all of identity products — Identity Manager, Role Manager, OpenSSO, Directory Server and OpenDS Standard Edition. Don’t get me wrong . . . OpenSSO is my baby and my favorite product of all, but I will now be spreading the love across the entire portfolio.
The part I struggled with most in writing this blog was how to communicate my new role without sounding like a total goof. I’m aware that titles that contain "Chief Anything" tend to lack humility and sound a little silly. So . . . feel free to let the jokes fly about my title (as the entire identity team has covered most of the jokes already). You can be assured, they will keep me humble. 
At any rate, stay tuned for more blogs from me on the world of Sun Identity and where it’s headed.
Peace out!
As promised, Sun is proud to announce the release of OpenSSO Express Build 7. This is a supported release and the first of many Express Releases leading up to OpenSSO Enterprise 8.1.
As many of you already know, the moment we finish a feature we now test it and make it available via an Express Release, which occur every three months. Customers that subscribe to OpenSSO Enterprise get complete access to these builds with support and indemnification.
Below is a list of some of the major enhancements / features.
1. FEDERATION WITH GOOGLE APPS PREMIER
Google Apps Premier Customers can now download Sun OpenSSO to deploy rapid federated single sign-on to organizations that use Google Apps as their collaboration and messaging service. The OpenSSO solution allows organizations leveraging Google Apps to use enterprise logins to access Google Apps, providing increased user adoption, improved security and administration benefits.
2. ADDITIONAL CONTAINER SUPPORT
* GlassFish Prelude 3
* IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0
* Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 (10.3)
3. SUPPORT FOR OPENDS STANDARD EDITION
Customers can now download and deploy OpenDS Standard Edition as a user store with OpenSSO.
To read about all the new features and enhancements in OpenSSO Express 7 check out our Express 7 Release Notes.
Download OpenSSO Express 7 now.
