For a non-Microsoft person, what is ADFS? ADFS is Microsoft’s solution for Single Sign On and web based authentication. It is used primarily to provide a single set of credentials that can access a variety of sites not necessarily hosted within the same domain. How does it differ to things like LDAP? LDAP: Communicates using … Read more
The ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider does an authenticated bind to the Active Directory using a specified username, password, and “connection string”. The connection string is made up of the LDAP server’s name, and the fully-qualified path of the container object where the user specified is located. The connection string begins with the URI LDAP://. … Read more
Absolutely. From a computer that’s a member of the domain, open a command-prompt and run a: NET GROUP “group name” /DOMAIN Unless your administrators have changed the stock permissions on the group object you will be able to view the membership that way. You can use AD Users and Computers even if you’re not an … Read more
On any computer, that has DNS configured to use AD’s DNS server do: Start -> Run -> nslookup set type=all _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DOMAIN_NAME Replace DOMAIN_NAME with the actual domain name e.g. example.com. Read more here.
Try running gpresult /R for RSoP summary or gpresult /V for verbose output from the command line as an administrator on the computer. It should output something like this: C:\Windows\system32>gpresult /V Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Operating System Group Policy Result tool v2.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2001 Created On 2/10/2010 at 10:27:41 AM RSOP data … Read more
CN = Common Name OU = Organizational Unit DC = Domain Component These are all parts of the X.500 Directory Specification, which defines nodes in a LDAP directory. You can also read up on LDAP data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is an alternate format. You read it from right to left, the right-most component is … Read more
memberOf (in AD) is stored as a list of distinguishedNames. Your filter needs to be something like: If you don’t yet have the distinguished name, you can search for it with: and return the attribute distinguishedName. Case may matter.
Active Directory is a database based system that provides authentication, directory, policy, and other services in a Windows environment LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for querying and modifying items in directory service providers like Active Directory, which supports a form of LDAP. Short answer: AD is a directory services database, and … Read more
This exception comes from the client, right? Please perform a forward and reverse DNS lookup of the server hostname. Your server has incorrect DNS entries. They are absolutely crucial for Kerberos. The proper place is your DNS server, in your case: domain controller. Figure out the IP address of your DNS server and contact your … Read more
Cmdlets in powershell accept a bunch of arguments. When these arguments are defined you can define a position for each of them. This allows you to call a cmdlet without specifying the parameter name. So for the following cmdlet the path attribute is define with a position of 0 allowing you to skip typing -Path … Read more