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searchWin2000.com awards top Active Directory products
Aelita won first place followed by Quest. Now they are the same company; go figure.
# posted by Robbie (1/31/2004 08:52:39 AM)
Quest Software to Acquire Aelita Software
This is very interesting news. Perhaps a catalyst for consolidation in the third-party AD vendor space?
# posted by Robbie (1/29/2004 12:03:18 AM)
Common Mistakes When Upgrade Windows 2000 Domain To Windows 2003
Good KB Article on some of the problems you can run into when upgrading from W2K AD to W2K3 AD and some things to look for.
# posted by Robbie (1/23/2004 10:22:11 PM)
Novell eDirectory Now Supports Windows Server 2003
Extending its commitment to provide customers their choice of platform for running network services, Novell now adds Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to its list of supported platforms for eDirectory, the company's market-leading, high-end directory service. Now Windows Server 2003 customers have the option of running a standards-based, multi-platform directory in place of, or as a complement to, Microsoft's special-purpose, single-platform Active Directory.
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 09:09:32 AM)
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v1.2
Microsoft has just released an update of their free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v1.2 (for IT Professionals). If you don't scan your servers periodically to check for compliance of some basic security settings, hotfixes, etc., then you should check this tool out.
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 09:07:18 AM)
Aelita Software Sponsors Spring Directory Experts Conference (DEC)
I'm glad to see another AD vendor joining the fun at DEC.
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 09:04:36 AM)
NetIQ's New Windows Administration, Password Management Solutions
"NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ), a leading provider of Systems & Security Management and Web Analytics solutions, today announced the upcoming release of a new version of NetIQ(R) Security Administration Suite and a new module, Secure Password Administrator(TM), for NetIQ's Directory and Resource Administrator(TM). These solutions are designed to help companies increase their Return On Active Directory (ROAD) investments through increased security, automation and auditability of their Microsoft Active Directory environments."
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 09:03:23 AM)
Spreadsheet of Group Policy Settings for Windows XP Professional SP 2 Beta
"This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files shipped with Windows Server 2003. This includes all policy settings supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. The spreadsheet includes separate worksheets for each of the .adm files shipped, as well as a consolidated worksheet for easy searching. Using column filters, the spreadsheet allows simple filtering by operating system, component and machine/user configuration, as well as regular text search of keywords through Excel."
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 08:58:18 AM)
SFU a Finalist for LinuxWorld Award
This is very surprising news.
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 08:48:05 AM)
Download details: Active Directory Schema Modification and Publishing White Paper
This white paper contains information on SMS schema extension and using ADSI to create containers and grant permissions for SMS to publish to Active Directory.
# posted by Robbie (1/21/2004 08:46:40 AM)
New AD tool brings users 'back from the dead'
"An upcoming version of an Active Directory recovery product made by Aelita Software Corp. will give customers another option for reconstituting deleted objects online.
The software, which was formerly called ERDisk for Active Directory, will launch this week as Aelita Recovery Manager for Active Directory 7.0. The main improvement will be support for a tombstone reanimation programming interface in Microsoft's Windows Server 2003."
Continue at source.
# posted by Robbie (1/19/2004 12:26:32 AM)
SFU 3.5 Is Available Now (and Free of Charge)
Living up to their promise, Microsoft has released Services For UNIX 3.5 free of charge. This was long in coming. Microsoft finally realized that they have to make any UNIX offering extremely attractive from a sales point of view. This eliminates yet another argument against integrating UNIX with Windows. Now they just need to work on the feature set in SFU :-)
# posted by Robbie (1/16/2004 08:21:52 AM)
From Many (domains) to One
In the early days of Windows 2000, Microsoft often recommended a multi-domain Active Directory model for large organizations. About a year before Windows Server 2003 was released I started to regret using multiple domains because a single domain makes things much easier (especially in heterogeneous environments). The global catalog is a nice feature to have when dealing with multiple domains, but it doesn't solve a lot of problems. And most UNIX applications still don't know how to deal with a GC properly. Anyway, I highly recommend a single domain if you can get away with it. While it does put more of your eggs in one basket, it significantly reduces costs and support overhead.
Here is an article touting the single domain model...
# posted by Robbie (1/08/2004 05:18:03 PM)
Computerworld | Microsoft focuses identity management effort
Microsoft focuses identity management effort
"Amid the growing buzz around identity management, Microsoft is trying to pull together a platform that would offer corporations entry into a new generation of end-user management, security and regulatory compliance.
The software giant is tuning its client, servers and gateway software to align with the basic tenets of identity management, namely authentication, user management, access management and directory services. So far, the existing pieces lack cohesion and some aspects, such as Web-based access management, are missing altogether."
Source: Computerworld
# posted by Robbie (1/06/2004 01:26:17 PM)
RSS Feed now available
The AD Cookbook Blog now has an RSS Feed.
http://www.employees.org/~rcallen/blog/adcookbook/rss.xml
# posted by Robbie (1/03/2004 11:40:02 AM)
Windows & .NET Magazine Connections
Since I write a bit for Windows Scripting Solutions, this year I was asked to present at Windows & .NET Magazine Connections. I haven't been to a Windows Connections conference in the past, but I've heard some good things about them. Should be fun...
# posted by Robbie (1/02/2004 12:21:20 AM)
NetPro | Directory Experts Conference Spring 2004
Netpro recently announced the speaker lineup for Directory Experts Conference Spring 2004. Looks like a good group with some interesting topics. They were nice enough to ask me back for the fifth time. Since the theme for the conference is integration, I'm going to talk about UNIX and AD. The working title for my preso is "Top 10 Arguments Against Integrating Active Directory with Your UNIX Infrastructure (And How to Overcome Them)". Hopefully it will be worth a few laughs :-)
# posted by Robbie (1/02/2004 12:13:17 AM)
Samba-3 - AD Integration is here!
You may have already heard, but Samba 3 now supports Active Directory. Very cool.
# posted by Robbie (1/02/2004 12:03:47 AM)
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