Active Directory Cookbook Blog

NetWare-on-Linux Release Due a Year Ahead of Schedule - Computerworld

Novell has a second chance to make inroads in the NOS space. It will be interesting to see how far they'll go and if they can compete with Active Directory.

# posted by Robbie (3/30/2004 10:08:42 AM)

New Application: Winternals Insight for Active Directory

Winternals Insight for Active Directory: "Winternals, a leading provider of Microsoft systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions, today announced the release of Insight for Active Directory, a real-time diagnostic solution that pinpoints the precise causes of application and service failures resulting from Active Directory (AD) configuration, corruption and communication issues. "

# posted by Robbie (3/27/2004 09:16:06 PM)

New Download: Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations Whitepaper

"This guide explains how to avoid loss of access to network resources by legitimate clients or the inappropriate disclosure of potentially sensitive information by enhancing security for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network operating system (NOS) environments."

# posted by Robbie (3/27/2004 09:12:43 PM)

Pentagon tries fingerprint sign-on

Fingerprint sign-on capability integrated with Active Directory!

# posted by Robbie (3/26/2004 11:54:37 AM)

Samba 3: The first 180 days

This is an interesting interview with one of the Samba co-founders. Here is one of the quotes that caught my eye: "I am guessing that two-thirds of the Solaris projects are integrating into Active Directory frameworks". He also says that a lot of people are asking, "How do I get my LDAP back end to work [with Samba]?"

# posted by Robbie (3/26/2004 11:50:07 AM)

New Download: Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe)

Download details: Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe)
I just downloaded this new tool and have been reviewing the output. It installs as a service and writes log files to C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\PortReporter. Most of the information you can get already using the latest version of netstat in Windows Server 2003 and the Sysinternals TCPView tool. But it would be useful if you want to monitor port usage over a period of time. CAUTION: the log files grow pretty quickly so make sure you have ample space before leaving it turned on for an extended period.

# posted by Robbie (3/16/2004 12:02:41 PM)

New download: Windows 2000/2003: Multiple Forests Considerations White Paper

"This paper describes the conditions that warrant creating more than one Active Directory forest for a single enterprise, including security, legal, pilot, and business mergers and divestitures."

# posted by Robbie (3/16/2004 11:58:04 AM)

Pukka Software Releases VirtualAD for Active Directory

"VirtualAD provides architects and administrators with a complete graphical
overview of their Active Directory environment, and allows them to analyse, plan, simulate, troubleshoot and report on their AD, including health checking and disaster scenario planning. It maps the Active Directory structure on a location based map and thus provides a direct view on the underlying physical layout of the Active Directory. VirtualAD gets all relevant design information from your active directory and allows you to perform design checks and simulations on the current situation, but can be configured to help plan future situations."

# posted by Robbie (3/08/2004 04:48:22 PM)

Protecting Yourself Against Kerberos Attacks

This article contains a good overview of Kerberos and how an attacker my try to circumvent it.

# posted by Robbie (3/08/2004 11:04:49 AM)

How to Bundle Active Directory Application Mode with Your Directory-enabled Application

Download details

"Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) is a new mode of Active Directory designed specifically for directory-enabled applications. This document describes how to distribute ADAM with a custom application by bundling ADAM Setup within the setup program of a custom application."

# posted by Robbie (3/02/2004 10:13:54 PM)