When I heard about this at Lotusphere I instantly got excited. For a good rundown of what this is, read this guy’s blog entry (why retype something someone else did brilliantly, right?).
In short, ID vault synchronizes IDs and ensures that users who have multiple ID files out in the wild have the information (certificates, passwords, etc.) in the ID file synchronized. It also includes a number of tools that are designed to provide better administration of ID related activities (password resets and such).
For some reason, in my excitement I *thought* that it would also solve a problem we have where people use PCs in conference rooms and don’t have access to their ID. Sure, we’ve provided instructions about how to move it to a network share, but not everyone “gets” that. We could also store the ID on the network, but that doesn’t fix the issue for laptop users. I *thought* ID vault had something available that would help address that but apparently not.
If anyone knows of a clever way around that problem, I’d love to hear about it.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
It seems like the solution to your conference room PC issue might be Notes roaming, specifically the file server roaming capability introduced in Notes 8.5. However, you may want to wait until 8.5.1 to deploy this and ID Vault in the same environment.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
On second thought, if laptops are part of your mix, then regular Domino server-based roaming seems like a better fit for you than the new file server-based roaming.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Good suggestions! I’ll look into those. Thanks!
April 29th, 2009 at 8:35 am
You may also want to investigate Shared Logon… not single sign on, this is something different, from what I can gather it provides the Notes ID hash to the AD account so that by simply logging on to the domain, they will have everything needed to authenticate to Domino… new in ND 8.5