Now that's interop!

Check out Novell's BrainShare keynote for an amazing demo of the interoperability they have built between Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory. You can fast-forward to the demo if you're impatient. It's at 1:15:43 and it is awesome.

In an earlier post (Jan. 18/07) I mentioned that BrainShare would be the first true test of the agreement - Would a Microsoft executive speak? Answer = yes! Craig Mundie from Microsoft was on-stage with Novell's CTO for a fireside chat.

Novell basically demoed the software I mentioned in yesterday's post called Novell Domain Services for Windows. Some of the key things shown during the demo included:

• Creating a user via the ADUC MMC but the user created is actually added to eDirectory
• Modified the added user via iManager and refreshed the MMC to see the change appear
• Set up a two-way trust between two companies (acme.com and widget.com)
• Enabled sharing a folder in one company for a specific user in the other company
• From the other company logged in as that user and accessed that resource

Very nice indeed. Good work guys!

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