Adventures in identity management
I’ve already posted about the configuration options that are common to all MAs, so this post is about the options specific to the Active Directory MA, though much of it will also apply to the other LDAP-types – Sun and Netscape, Netware, ADAM, IBM Directory Server and openLDAP.
You don’t always have access to a proper IdM system. At the moment I’m at an organisation which still uses the old, manual ways of updating AD. I was asked if I knew an easy way to update the mobile phone numbers of a list of users, the data having been sent to Helpdesk in…
Here’s another trick that is really very simple, but, for reasons I can’t figure out, difficult to find out about. Despite what the documentation seems to say (and despite what I have read MS employees categorically stating), you CAN add an Exchange mailbox to an account that already exists in AD. Bundled with MIIS are…