Tag Archives | Active Directory

Binding to Active Directory: AD Connections De-mystified, Part 3

By on September 14, 2011 in .NET, .NET, Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory

Note: This series covers Active Directory connection strings, often referred to as bind paths, with the goal of simplifying the process of creating an AD bind path. A significant amount of the information for this series comes from the wonderful AD programming book, The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming, by Ryan Dunn and Joe Kaplan. The LDAP ADsPath article [...]

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Binding to Active Directory: AD Connections De-mystified, Part 2

By on September 13, 2011 in .NET, .NET, Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory

Note: This series covers Active Directory connection strings, often referred to as bind paths, with the goal of simplifying the process of creating an AD bind path. A significant amount of the information for this series comes from the wonderful AD programming book, The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming, by Ryan Dunn and Joe Kaplan. The [...]

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Binding to Active Directory: AD Connections De-mystified, Part 1

By on September 12, 2011 in .NET, .NET, Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory

Note: This series covers Active Directory connection strings, often referred to as bind paths, with the goal of simplifying the process of creating an AD bind path. A significant amount of the information for this series comes from the wonderful AD programming book, The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming, by Ryan Dunn and Joe Kaplan. The LDAP ADsPath article [...]

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Active Directory and LDAP Tips and Tricks: Capitalize the Provider in Connection Strings

By on September 6, 2011 in Active Directory, Development, Microsoft Active Directory

We see issues from time to time with LDAP connection strings for Active Directory failing to work even when folks know the connection string and bind credentials are correct. Even if you copy a distinguished name value from a tool like ADSIEdit or Active Directory Explorer, many times you must specify a provider in the [...]

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Weird Attribute Names in Active Directory

By on August 30, 2011 in Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory

For the most part, the LDAP names of Active Directory attributes are the same or very similar to their English-language descriptions. However, there are a few annoying exceptions that I’ve summarized here, including one of the more weird attribute names for the City attribute. The City attribute uses the letter “L” as its LDAP display [...]

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Microsoft .NET AuthenticablePrincipal.LastPasswordSet Value Trick

By on August 26, 2011 in .NET, .NET, Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory

The AuthenticablePrincipal.LastPasswordSet property in the .NET library’s System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace specifies the last date and time that the password was set for an account. We use this property to read a number of pieces of data about Active Directory user accounts but there is an interesting anomaly with the LastPasswordSet property in the AuthenticablePrincipal wrapper class. The LastPasswordSet property [...]

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Run IIS Web Applications on a Windows Member Server and Not a Domain Controller

By on August 17, 2011 in Active Directory, DNS Server, Exchange, IIS, Microsoft Active Directory, SQL 2008, SQL Server, Virtualization, VMWare, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

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 [...]

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Active Directory: Enterprise Needs vs. Needs for Managed Services Providers (MSP)

By on August 12, 2011 in Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory, MSP, RBAC

Microsoft’s Active Directory provides essential identity services to many different types of organizations. We’ve recently been working on enhancing our PeopleProvision solution to better meet the needs of our customers and we’ve noticed some interesting differences between the way enterprises use Active Directory and the utility that AD provides to a managed services provider (MSP). We [...]

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Active Directory Provisioning with PowerShell: Extensibility and Power without Costly Implementation (Part 4 of 4)

By on August 5, 2011 in Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), Business Philosophy, Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, PeopleProvision, SQL Server, User Experience, Windows Server 2008 R2

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 [...]

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Active Directory Provisioning with PowerShell: Extensibility and Power without Costly Implementation (Part 3 of 4)

By on August 4, 2011 in Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), Business Philosophy, Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, PeopleProvision, Powershell, SQL Server, User Experience, Windows Server 2008 R2

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 [...]

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