Hi Joanna, At Cisco we've developed a whole suite of web-based AD tools to include an Account Mgmt (users, groups, compters) tool. It was all done using Perl and CGI with Apache as the web server. ADSI makes it pretty straightforward, or if you want to develop on a UNIX platform, you can do nearly as much with the Net::LDAP perl module.
Robbie Allen Cisco Systems Enterprise Management Coauthor of "Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services" > -----Original Message----- > From: Joanna Days [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Question > > > Do you have the name of the Cisco person that spoke or a point of > contact from that conference that I can check up with? > > Gil Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > > Joanna, > > > > Don't know if there's a commercial product for this, but at > the Directory > > Exerpts Conference this past April, the AD architect from > Cisco spoke on > > some software they had developed in-house, which appeared > to be just what > > you describe. It was apparently a pretty straightforward > development project > > with IIS, ASP, and Perl scripts. > > > > -g > > > > Gil Kirkpatrick > > Chief Technology Officer, NetPro > > Author of "Active Directory Programming" from MacMillan > > > > Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook at: > > http://www.netpro.com/ebook > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joanna Days [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:56 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Question > > > > I am currently doing Windows 2000 Active Directory research > in preparation > > for our upcoming migration from Novell to Active Directory. > > I have a couple of questions and wanted to know if anyone > has dealt with > > them I work in an education institution so my questions > may be specific to > > EDU but also to other companies. > > > > - Does anyone currently have a method where > students/staff/faculty can > > create their own AD account? > > - Does anyone currently have a method (preferable web > based) where > > users > > can reset their own password? > > - Does anyone currently have a method to check to see > if the account > > is > > current and if not to automatically delete the account? > > - Are you using an off the shelf product or are you > using an in house > > program (or a combination of the two)? > > > > Below is a list of things that we are trying to accomplish: > > > > We are trying to find a solution that will allow our > students to create > > their own Active Directory account to allow them to log on > to the machines > > in the computer lab. They need to also be able to reset > their own passwords. > > Accounts need to exist only for the currently enrolled > students. That would > > mean that on a nightly basis a program would need to go out > and compare the > > list of AD users in the computer lab OU with our in-house > database and > > delete any accounts that exist in AD from users that are no > longer enrolled. > > This will most likely a batch program that will go out and query the > > database and respond with LDAP information. > > > > Our currently enrolled students at this time can obtain an > account on our > > UNIX server. We are looking to either have a process that > would either > > check to see if they have an account on the UNIX server or > to go out and do > > a direct connection to our registration database. > > > > Is anyone out there doing something similar or have any > idea on how we would > > need to transfer the data to AD? I would greatly > appreciate any assistance > > or guidance that anyone could provide. Thanks. > > > > -- > > Joanna > > ;-) > > \\|// > > (o o) > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOOo~(_)~oOOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~ > > > > It doesn't matter what others think Joanna C. Days > > as long as you know the truth. Network Support Engineer > > Information Technology > > -JCD- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : > http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > > > -- > Joanna > ;-) > \\|// (o o) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOOo~(_)~oOOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ It doesn't matter what others think Joanna C. Days as long as you know the truth. Network Support Engineer Information Technology -JCD- [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
