ActiveShareFS 2007 (or ActiveShare Federation Service 2007 or ASFS 2007) is a software drop-in solution for enabling secure federated single sign-on in Microsoft SharePoint 2007 server using the Shibboleth/SAML industry standards.
ActiveShareFS 2007 authenticates and then automatically provisions users securely from trusted partner institutions based on configured business rules for access. These rules are configured and managed using a graphical user interface provided by ActiveShareFS. As a result, only trusted users from trusted partner organizations are given appropriate level of access to secure parts of the SharePoint sites. ActiveShareFS 2007 is an ASP.NET compliant software and works with existing SharePoint 2007 server.
KEY FEATURES of ActiveShareFS 2007 Professional:
* A Graphical User Interface for configuring and managing ActiveShareFS 2007
* Provision users automatically in SharePoint 2007 based on business rules
* Role, Username and Entitlement based access management
* Map allowed users to SharePoint Groups automatically
* Configure external SAML Identity Provider for external authentication
* Use Shibboleth as external authentication provider
* Supports WebDAV and Microsoft office client integration
* Automatic synchronization of external user information with their SharePoint profiles
* Open standards solution: SAML 2 and SAML 1.1
* No software programming required!!
KEY BENEFITS of using ActiveShareFS 2007 Professional:
* Reduced SharePoint administration costs. No need to manually create user accounts in SharePoint. Configure business rules for access once and let ActiveShareFS take care of the rest.
* Reduced help desk operations costs and potential liabilities. User credentials are no longer managed by the SharePoint site administrators and owners.
* Improved user satisfaction!!
ActiveShareFS is widely deployed in higher education, government, healthcare, energy and commercial markets today helping customers achieve maximum returns on their Microsoft SharePoint 2007 investments.
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