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So you are sitting around and suddenly want to put serviceConnectionPoint objects into your LDS instance and suddenly realize that they didn’t put the SCP objectclass definition in LDS nor is it an optional LDIF file to add… So I created one using ADSchemaAnalyzer from the ADLDS install… You can find it here http://www.joeware.net/miscdownloads/lds/20190319_serviceConnectionPoint.ldf and […]
[Sat 03/16/2019 16:41:06.51] E:\DEV\perl\jwDCLocator>perl jwdclocator.pl /domain:k16tst.test.loc jwDCLocator V01.01.00pl Joe Richards (support@joeware.net) March 2018 Initializing Logging to logfile 20190316-1641-jwDCLocator.log… Reading configuration file jwDCLocator.config… Processing configuration file… Determining bootstrap domain controllers via DNS for k16tst.test.loc… BootStrap Hosts: k16tst-dc2.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-dc1.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-scdc1.k16tst.test.loc Dynamically determining site… Sending LDAP Ping to LDAP://k16tst-dc2.k16tst.test.loc:389… AutoDetected Server Site : Site2 […]
Apologies, the tool downloads were broken for a little bit there. It is fixed now. joe Rating 4.33 out of 5
1. Determine if your application has been configured to use a specific named Domain Controller, if so use it. a. For debugging purposes only b. Application specific (where do you keep your configuration info?) 2. Determine if your application has been configured to use a specific named Site at startup, if so do […]
…Yeah I know, I hate it too… joe Rating 4.60 out of 5
1. Determine if your application has been configured to use a specific named Domain Controller, use it. a. For debugging purposes only b. Application specific (where do you keep your configuration info?) 2. Determine if your application has been configured to use a specific named Site at startup, do not Autodiscover site. […]
0. This does not follow the previously mentioned high level steps, this method is “I hand my problem over to Microsoft to figure out on my behalf”. 1. Call ldap_sslinit specifying domain name or forest name (for Global Catalog) a. LDAP port i. LDAP* pLdap=ldap_sslinit(L"domain.forestroot.com", LDAP_PORT, false); b. LDAPS (SSL) port […]
0. If you are on Windows use the Windows LDAP Library and let it handle all of this for you. 1. Determine if your application has been configured to use a specific named Domain Controller, use it. a. For debugging purposes only 2. Determine if your application has been configured (hardcoded) to use a […]
Active Directory location capability is all based on open standards based DNS SRV records which are designed to offer location capability for ANY services. The DNS SRV record RFC is RFC2782 which you can find at https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt. There are two main components of the SRV process for domain controllers; registration and lookup. First the domain […]
While working on some posts about writing code for leveraging Active Directory I realized that a very weak point I have run into with many (perhaps most) apps is the logging, particularly for use in troubleshooting and/or debugging of issues. I don’t care how good of a coder you are (or think you are), your […]
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