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…]
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 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…]
When working with Active Directory, there are a few different replication systems in place. One of the key replications is that of the SYSVOL as this replicates the group policy settings throughout a domain. SYSVOL replication is a bit different from regular AD replication as it replicates files used by SYSVOL (as opposed to individual … [Read more…]
With the large environment we have (with 574 sites), it is easy to have items that are misconfigured. One of the things that I have always wondered how to do is find sites that don’t have any site-links. Today, the Ask the Directory Services Team blog addressed this very issue. In the blog, they provide … [Read more…]