In yesterday’s post we looked at an issue with the IIS 7 architecture where Windows and Basic authentication fail when the “User must change password at next logon” flag is set for an Active Directory user. Microsoft engineered IIS 7 to deny access to users who have this flag set. This change from previous versions of [...]
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Run IIS Web Applications on a Windows Member Server and Not a Domain Controller
Most of our software products run on Microsoft’s IIS web server. In our product installation guides, we specify in the system requirements to install our web applications on a member server instead of a domain controller. Recently, a prospect asked us why we recommend this since WebAD products connect to Active Directory. Is it really a best [...]
PowerShell Hosting in ASP.NET: Resolving Errors with PowerShell Set-ExecutionPolicy
One of the great innovations in Windows PowerShell is the ability to host the PowerShell run-time environment in any number of run-time hosts. We use this capability to host PowerShell in an ASP.NET web application process for our PeopleProvision solution. Everything works great once you get over a couple of big security hurdles. File SomePowerShellFile.ps1 [...]
Active Directory Provisioning with PowerShell: Extensibility and Power without Costly Implementation (Part 4 of 4)
We’ve been looking this week at Web Active Directory’s new PeopleProvision solution for automating and delegating the Active Directory account creation process. Today we present the final post of our blog series and look more closely at PowerShell’s role in the PeopleProvision platform. PowerShell empowers PeopleProvision to deliver the most business value by providing extensibility and [...]
Active Directory Provisioning with PowerShell: Extensibility and Power without Costly Implementation (Part 3 of 4)
This is Part 3 of Web Active Directory’s blog post series highlighting our new PowerShell-enabled platform. We introduced the series with an exam of how other software vendors approach provisioning with costly implementation services and then looked at WebAD’s PeopleProvision solution more closely. In this post, we look at how easy it is to implement [...]
Active Directory Provisioning with PowerShell: Extensibility and Power without Costly Implementation (Part 2 of 4)
We are taking a look at Web Active Directory’s new PowerShell-enabled platform this week in a series of blog posts. We introduced the series by discussing how many software companies like to squeeze every red cent from their customers by using proprietary technologies that require costly implementation services. This post introduces WebAD’s PeopleProvision tool to [...]
Check “User must change password at next logon” Flag in Active Directory
I posted about Microsoft’s IISADMPWD tool and IIS 7 issues recently. The IISADMPWD tool allows Active Directory users to change AD password in versions of IIS prior to IIS 7 and the primary intent of this tool is to allow Outlook Web Access users before Exchange 2007 to change their AD password. Changes to IIS [...]
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