Microsoft LCS 2005 on the boards
Tags :Announcement
Microsoft announced it is trying to get Live
Communication Server 2005 out by Christmas with more features built in.
I am appreciative of one area they are saying should make the cut
for this first release, which means wait a bit as usual. For those
of you that have seen my sessions from Lotusphere
or Admin2003 on LDAP topics, I believe in spending a few minutes explaining
federating and aggregating directories when doing those sessions. (I
will be glad to do so if anyone asks from this post). It is a basic
foundation that far too many enterprises don't quite grasp when building
enterprise level LDAP deployments. But I digress.....here is what
Microsoft has said is in LCS 2005
Officials predict
two new functions (though they will publicize other features down the road)
will keep LCS 2005 ahead of the software curve: federated ID and outside
access.
Federated ID is an umbrella authentication
scheme that allows not just company employees but customers, suppliers
and partners to IM each other. Logged in and authenticated through the
company's database, which also archives the chat session, LCS 2005 supports
encrypted messaging. The feature is broken down into two areas: direct
federation (between two or more companies) and clearinghouse federation
(a more general, domain-specified authentication schema).
We will skip the outside access piece because
to me that is a bunch of hooey. Sametime and other packages offers
outside access. The issue for LCS previously was the lack of encrypted
messaging. So of course you don't want to open a firewall for the
darn product.
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On Wednesday, May 5th, 2004 by Chris Miller
