I was asked lately to check some things connected with authentication users accessing Apache based web-site against AD. It is quite simple but requires some configuration so I’ve gathered things all together and here is is – how to make Apache web server authenticating users against AD using mod_auth_kerb module. Here’s a recipe for mine … Continue reading "Apache and kerberos authentication within AD domain"
MIIS design concepts updated
MIIS design concepts document library has been updated with new document. MIIS 2003 Design Concepts for Advanced Solution Components has been recently added as next document in this family. MIIS 2003 Design Concepts for Advanced Solution Components deals with: (…) “process-level attributes” and “conditional metaverse objects” to improve the convergence efficiency of the identity integration … Continue reading "MIIS design concepts updated"
Warsaw uprising anniversary
This post has nothing to do with technology but maybe some of you will be interested in it. Today is 62'th anniversary of Warsaw uprising which started at 1'st of August in 1944 during World War 2. Flying fortress B-17 should fly in this moment on a sky above my flat which is located in … Continue reading "Warsaw uprising anniversary"
Exchange Server 2007 and the Active Directory, Part 1
I’ve been looking at Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 today and the way it interoperates with the Active Directory. It won’t come as a surprise to see that Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 still relies on the Active Directory as its directory service (like Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003) but there … Continue reading "Exchange Server 2007 and the Active Directory, Part 1"
Changing Automatic DisplayName creation in ADUC
I needed to change the way the DisplayName is automatically formatted in ADUC for a customer and was shocked to know they did not know of the createDialog propery in the CN=409 under DisplaySpecifier(s) in the Configuration partition. Below is a extract from the KB that shows you how to do this.
Using ADFS with Content Management Server 2002
Maybe CMS 2002 is not most popular content management software in the world but some people are using it in the real world. This is a case with our customer here who will deploy web application based on CMS 2002 in his network. This company maintains two separated AD forests, one is internal forest for … Continue reading "Using ADFS with Content Management Server 2002"
Virtual PC for free!
Just like VMWare's Virtual Server, the VMWare Player, Xen (and of course Microsoft's Virtual Server) Microsoft Virtual PC is now free!
The road to Eldorado
Eldorado, spanish for “the gilded one” is a term becoming more and more appropriate for Microsoft Windows Vista, but I’m gonna give you a different angle to look at this, based on the 2000 movie ‘the road to Eldorado’.
I gave Vista a try , part I
New notebook has just arrived (Toshiba Tecra M5 – after first few hours my opinion is that this is definitely not heavy duty hardware) and I’ve decided to try to use Windows Vista Beta 2 on it as a main system, to learn and get my own opinion about it. Installation went fast and it … Continue reading "I gave Vista a try , part I"
Living in the multi language world is though (at least for some of us)
OK, I must admit – I live in a strange country where we are using this all fancy characters called diacritical characters. If You would spot some Polish text on the Internet, You will notice some fancy characters like ą,ś,ł etc. In early computer age time (which was a little later then outside of Eastern … Continue reading "Living in the multi language world is though (at least for some of us)"