RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, & AD

[Robert Bobel]

Nice side benefit is that the license to use MIIS with the Feature Integration pack to sync AD to ADAM is free.   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D9143610-C04D-41C4-B7EA-6F56819769D5&displaylang=en     Bob   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 7:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, & AD   Where is this going to be located? Extranet or Intranet?   If you are going to be doing some very simple syncing, I would look at writing something myself or maybe implementing one of the lighter syncing tools like SimpleSync or HP's LDSU. If you need to do a lot of transforms or complex translations or connect to lots of different data sources such as SAP, etc, MIIS might be where you want to go. If you spin up MIIS, it is possible you may need to have a body sitting there maintaining and troubleshooting it due to its complexity plus it is really in flux right now in my opinion in terms of how many things they are looking to change and/or add to it.   How is the data in the directory to be used? Is it going to be an auth point for apps or ???         From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:03 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, & AD We have an upcoming project which will require an LDAP directory containing both our internal users, and our extranet users. Currently, our internal users are in one AD domain, the extranet users are in another. The domains are in separate forests, and there are no trusts.   My plan is to use ADAM for the central LDAP directory. However, I'm on the horns of an enema, um, I mean dilemma on how to sync ADAM to the two domains. A first glance would suggest MIIS. However, MIIS looks pretty complicated, and difficult to configure.   I'm considering writing my own sync code since the task at hand is relatively straight-forward. Passwords will be a bit of a problem, but not unworkable. We use Psynch to maintain our internal passwords, so I can have it change the ADAM passwords at the same time it changes the internal AD passwords. The extranet users change their password via an existing web app, so having it change the ADAM passwords won't be an issue.   Reading about ADAM "proxy users" leads me to believe they'd be a perfect fit as the object type to use for our internal users (authentication is relayed to AD thus negating the need to sync passwords). However, the ADAM tech ref says proxy users should only be used as a last resort, and to refer to the next section as to why. Unfortunately, the next section doesn't explain why not to use them. Anybody know why proxy user objects are evil?   Are there any good "MIIS for dummies" type documentation around? Any good ADAM and/or MIIS mailing lists?