NOTE: This is the first is a series of articles I am writing as my organization moves from using IBM Domino to Office 365. For those who are moving from using IBM Domino as their email and directory, there are a number of things that one needs to think about for their Active Directory environment. … [Read more…]
The final piece of the puzzle is to now take the information that has been written to our LDAP store and push those changes to Domino. The blog article I mentioned in part one (where we got the modified password sync nsf from) uses TDI to accomplish this. Originally, that was our plan as well, … [Read more…]
As we were preparing everything for these changes, we ran across numerous references to custom IBM schema fields that were being used by the password sync process (when using LDAP as the store), but really very little detail about what the schema change did and how it was used. I don’t like to apply schema … [Read more…]
The next part of the process, now that we have a webservice we can call to change the HTTP and ID Vault password is to actually capture the password. To complete this, we will do two things: configure a new password capture tool on each read/write domain controller and do a schema update as a … [Read more…]
As an organization, one of our goals is to get to a single login. For us, this means that we want users to use the same username and password across various systems. Our primary authentication system is Active Directory, but we still have a number of legacy Domino databases around. To accomplish our goal, we … [Read more…]
A number of years ago I posted some vbscript for auto disabling inactive users. My system before was a two part system where I found the inactive users, wrote them to a text file and then my proxy system handled them. Recently, I have been reviewing all of my scripts and moving them over to … [Read more…]
One of the things to consider when working with PowerShell is what editor do you want to use? Since I spend a fair amount of time in a script editor on a day to day basis, I have definitely found some things that I prefer. Here are a few things that I really want in … [Read more…]
On occasion, I will have users complain that their computer is starting up slow. Usually the first thing that gets blamed is group policy, but I know that it usually isn’t the primary cause (just the symptom of some other issue). Often, it indicates some issue specific to that machine. How do I know that? … [Read more…]
I have been working for awhile now to move a lot of my code over to PowerShell. I have found it to be very efficient and easy to read (just took a bit of a mentality change to switch over from VBScript). In our environment, I have always found it much more reliable to send … [Read more…]
I guess it is confession time. I am a recent convert to PowerShell. After having used VBS scripts for years now, I have recently discovered that I can do so much more using PowerShell using a lot less code. I have a long ways to go, especially to learn best practices for writing scripts and … [Read more…]