Is anyone using AzMan?

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

paul — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:30:02 GMT

Stay away from the basic AzMan that use COM, if this was something MS wanted us to use they would have made a .NET version by now, it has lots of problems and slowness.

The .NET SQL AzMan seems pretty good though. I don't find it integrates well with the RoleProvider/ AuthorizationProvider, but that's OK.

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

news75 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:18:34 GMT

Hi, I have the same problem.

I'm comparing Visual Guard, AzMan, NetSqlAzMan and the feature provided from the framework .net 3.0.

At the moment I'm prefering NetSqlAzMan. It's well integrated with .net framework, the comunity is active, is Open Source. Yes there are some limitation: Only Window or custum Authentication and Microsoft SQLManager, but...

I'm wondering: why this argument is so underestimates!?

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

starbros — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:49:06 GMT

I haven't tried it, but am considering NetSqlAzMan - but it is still similar to azman even though it does not use interops. Same steep learning curve and the author is Italian, so his screen shots often are in Italian. I wish there was something better.

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

funnyname — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:41:14 GMT

We don't use AZMAN because it has such a g*y name. Yup, that's the only reason..

Thanks M$ for making our HR dept nervous

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

Willem van Hooijdonk — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:11:53 GMT

Does anyone have any updates on this, now it's 2009?I'm also investigating the RoleManager and AzMan for use in our main system, but both of them keep me from implementing: RoleManager because of it's 'flatness' (just roles) and AsMan because of it's interop/performance. Are there any alternatives besides writing my own?

Thanks a million.

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

Emil Gottwald — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:08:19 GMT

I've been considering AzMan/ADAM as a potential technologies for replacing huge chunks of our custom-built authorization manager, which we developed several years ago before any of this was available. Have just started looking into it seriously. The technology looks promising so far. From my POV, adoption of the technology is slow because:

a) It takes a significant effort and committment

to re-architect applications to use it, and

b) There's a significant learning curve involved

which is hampered by the lack of cohesive,

up-to-date, detailed documentation. There's a ton

of information available, but sorting through it

is time consuming and, at times, frustrating since

there's conflicting information that has to be

researched to resolve.

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

Horea Hopartean — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:36:40 GMT

We tried to use it and keep its repository on a Win2003 AD, but at 10000 users it took 13 (thirteen) seconds to do an OpenApplication call.

That and the ugly API may be good reasons why it hasn't got any traction so far :)

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

Gabriel Lopez — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:36:25 GMT

It's almost 2007, and it seems to me that for one reason or another AzMan still hasn't gained wide adoption.

Does anyone have any idea why is this? Anyone would like to comment on this?

so what is an AZMAN?

TrackBack — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:15:00 GMT

re: Is anyone using AzMan?

Tom Bruns — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:00:00 GMT

I have used AzMan extensively in a large .NET Web application. I think that the conceptual model is very good. However, there is alot of "lessons learned" concerning how to correctly architect the application to use it relative to performance, ongoing maintaince of the policy store, interaction with ADAM etc. If I can be of any help please feel free to email me. Replace nospam with com in my email address. Used correctly it can perform very well.