Archive for the ‘Active Directory’ Category
Managing Active Directory from iPhone
AD HelpDesk is a tool that can be used to manage certain aspects of Active Directory user accounts. Using AD HelpDesk, you can configure an iOS based device to connect to Active Directory using an administrative account (or an account that has been delegated administrative access). Using the tool, you can then find a user. [...]
In: Active Directory, iPhone · Tagged with: Active Directory, ad domain, ios, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, Password, reset ad password, SMS, unlock accounts, username
New GUI Directory Services Debug Tool
DSDebug is a small, quick little tool that just puts a server into Directory Services debug mode, waits for a specified amount of time and then drops a file on your desktop with the logs, placing the server back into a non-Directory Services debug mode. That’s all. It’s mostly designed to send to an Open [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server · Tagged with: automated, debug mode, directory services, GUI, Open Directory
AD: Time Is The Enemy
One thing that Apple seems to have down pat in their documentation and troubleshooting methodologies in courseware is that if you have a problem with Kerberos clients, one of the first things to check is that the clock is at less than a 5 minute skew. However, I don’t really remember seeing this come up [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server
Likewise Open 5.3 Supports Snow Leopard
Likewise 5.3 supports Snow Leopard at 32 or 64 bit! Likewise Open 5.3 is open source software that can be used to bind Mac OS X, Linux & Unix to Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise (which is not open source) starts with the Open client but allows leveraging Workgroup Manager or Active Directory Users & Computers [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, Ubuntu, Unix · Tagged with: Active Directory, Likewise, likewise open, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard + SkyHook = Kerb Problems?
In the Date and Time System Preference pane there is now an option to enable “Set time zone automatically using current location”. Assuming you have a Mac OS X computer with Wi-Fi and you use this option (which is not enabled by default) then your portable looks up your location automatically using the wireless access [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X · Tagged with: API, Geo-aware, geography, GPS, kerberos, Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.6, SkyHook, Skyhook Wireless, Snow Leopard, Time Zone, wireless access points
Directory Utility in Snow Leopard
In Leopard, the Kerberos application got mad because the other utilities were making fun of him. So he went and hid in /System/Library/CoreServices and became an application that was summoned by other applications (ie – Keychain Utility) when they couldn’t do their own work and needed him. Directory Utility saw this and decided it looked [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: /Applications/Utilities, CoreServices, Directory Utility, Mac OS X 10.6, SL, Snow Leopard
List Shares in Windows w/ PowerShell
It is not uncommon to end up with a number of shares on a server, be it Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. With all of this sprawl it can be useful to see the shares in a quick and concise manner. using the Win32_Share WMI class through PowerShell you can do just that from [...]
In: Active Directory, Windows Server · Tagged with: get-WmiObject, list shares, powershell, share points, Win32_Share
Mac AD Password Expiration Monitor
Password Monitor is a somewhat new look on a tool that has been in production in a number of environments for awhile. According to the site: Password Monitor is a simple utility that will count down the days until a user’s Active Directory password is due to expire. An OS X 10.5 (or newer) system [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, Windows Server · Tagged with: Active Directory Password Monitor, AD Monitor, AD Password, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Password Monitor
Integrating Google Apps with Open Directory
Randy Saeks has posted a paper on integrating Open Directory with Google Apps. It’s a nice read and takes a lot of the guessing game out of getting Google Apps to authenticate users based on Open Directory. Many of the steps can also be leveraged to use the GoogleAppsToolkit for LDAP running on other platforms [...]
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: Google, Google Apps, LDAP, Open Directory
Getting Started with Amazon's EC2 Cloud
Yesterday I did a quick review of the various cloud offerings from Amazon. Previous to that I had done a review of using S3, the Amazon storage service, with Mac OS X, primarily through the lens of using S3 as a destination for Final Cut Server archives. Today I’m going to go ahead and look [...]
In: Active Directory, Articles and Books, Business, Consulting, Network Infrastructure, SQL, Ubuntu, Unix, VMware, Windows Server · Tagged with: Amazon EC2, AMI, Connect, fedora, howto, Password, windows
