Extend Active Directory’s Native Capabilities
to Unix, Linux, and Java

Authentication: A key component of any identity management project is the authentication of users. Quest solutions enable you to extend Microsoft’s directory service - Active Directory (AD) - to non-Windows systems and applications. With Quest’s standards-based solutions you can simplify cross-platform authentication around a single, compliant, powerful, and already-implemented infrastructure.

Reduced Sign-on: Quest solutions enable you to create a single sign-on (or reduced sign-on) "trusted realm" where Unix, Linux, Mac and Java systems participate in the same authentication mechanism as Windows users and systems.

With non-Windows systems as part of the Active Directory domain, the same credential generated at Windows logon can also grant access to systems that previously required separate identity stores and individual authentication mechanisms.

An additional benefit is the ability to apply Group Policy - including important password related policies - to those non-Windows systems giving you a complete "security zone" centered around and managed through Active Directory.