Re: using LDAP with MS ACTIVE DIRECTORY

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:45:26 +0300, Jaffar_DBA <sjaffarhussain_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> We are planning to move away from oracle names server and wanted to
> make use of LDAP facility with MS ACTIVE DIRECTORY. I have the
> following doubts in this regards:
>

Sorry can't answer your specific questions but there is one really major caveat for using LDAP to access Active Directory, it caught out out directories people when they tried to do it. Active Directory has two distinct record types: Active Directory Records and Active Directory LDAP records. It's undocumented but, if a record is created as an Active Directory record then it is not accessible by LDAP and cannot be migrated to LDAP, you have to delete the record and recreate it as an LDAP record. If there's a way around it then our directories people haven't told me about it.

Stephen

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