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. [...]

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 [...]

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server · Tagged with: , , , ,

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 [...]

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 10:30 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on August 18, 2009 at 10:37 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Active Directory, Windows Server · Tagged with: , , , ,

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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on May 16, 2009 at 1:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Active Directory, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: , , ,

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 [...]