Alex Tcherniakhovski - Security

Using PostSharp in FIM Synchronization rules to reduce code complexity, and improve readability.

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/02/2012

Programmatically confirming projection and join operation in FIM Synchronization Service during integration testing

  The objective of this blog is to provide FIM Synchronization Service integration testers with...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/18/2012

Testing with Entity Framework dbContext, and NoTracking option

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/09/2012

Sample C# code to invoke execution of a run profile on Forefront Identity Server Synchronization Service

During integration testing of FIM Synchronization Service it is often useful to programmatically...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/06/2012

How to set Active Directory Password from Java application

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/15/2012

Sample C# code to create SHA1 Salted (SSHA) password hashes for OpenLDAP

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/12/2012

Sample code to query OpenLDAP directory via .NET System.DirectoryServices.Protocols

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/07/2012

Configuring OpenLDAP pass-through authentication to Active Directory

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 04/25/2012

Detecting cross-nested groups in Active Directory with SSIS and SQL

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 04/12/2012

Debuggin ASP.NET application in IIS - building development environment

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/23/2012

Reporting on privileged Active Directory accounts with SQL Server

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/22/2012

Extracting object ownership information from Active Directory into SQL

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 01/04/2012

Extracting data from multiple Active Directory Domains

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 12/08/2011

Extracting data from FIM Synchronization Service Run Profile log

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 12/08/2011

Correlating Active Directory accounts with their corresponding HR records in the absence of unique identifiers

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 11/10/2011

Establishing Federation Trust

Conceptually within a Federation Trust configuration one party holds accounts of the participating...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/27/2011

Building a test claims-aware ASP.NET application and integrating it with ADFS 2.0 Security Token Service (STS)

  We will need an ADFS (STS) in order to provide authentication services for our application....

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/27/2011

Installing a stand-alone ADFS Service

In general installation of ADFS Service is a very straight forward process, nevertheless there are a...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/27/2011

Publishing Claims Aware Web Applications via Unified Access Gateway (UAG) SP1

  This walkthrough outlines the process of publishing a claims aware application through UAG...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/23/2011

Active Directory Data from Extract Load and Transform (ETL) perspective

Ensuring consistency of the data stored in Active Directory should be one of the top priorities in...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/15/2011

Installing AD Connection Manager and AD Source components

Two DLLs make up the content of the package which you will need to deploy on your SQL Server:...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/28/2011

Imaging Windows 2008 Server

Since I often need to quickly load Windows Server 2008 OS in my lab environment, I decided to invest...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/12/2011

Exploring Outlook Live Synchronization

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 02/06/2011

Sample .NET code that retrieves data stored in a SharePoint list

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/28/2007

.NET Helper Class for managment of Oracle User and Role objects

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/27/2007

Using data parameters with Oracle Data Provider for .NET

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/21/2007

Utility to load Active Directory with sample data and introduce incremental changes

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/10/2007

Certificate auto-enrollment configuration and certificate template version

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/03/2007

Sample Java application that retrieves group membership of an Active Directory user account.

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/18/2007

Active Directory Schema Design Considerations and Auxiliary Classes

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/16/2007

A PRACTICAL SCENARIO OF USING EXPORT_PASSWORD ATTRIBUTE

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 10/03/2006

Improving Import Performance of MIIS Extensible Management Agent (extMA)

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 09/27/2006

Script to populate Active Directory with test accounts

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 09/18/2006

Dealing with “System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute” error message in provisioning code.

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/14/2006

UNIX/LINUX Kerberos Authentication from the point of view of Windows Administrators

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 08/01/2006

How to interpret encryption types definitions in krb5kdc.log on UNIX KDC, during configuration of trust relationship between MIT V5 Realm and Active Directory

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/18/2006

Very practical example of using MapAttributesForJoin Method

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 07/14/2006

Unable to locate required client software error message during configuration of MIIS Oracle Management Agent

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 06/20/2006

Extensible MA and Data Source Systems that auto-generate anchor attributes

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Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 05/17/2006

Unable to login to SharePoint Central Administration Site during installation of SharePoint in Farm configuration

Unable to login to SharePoint Central Administration Site during installation of SharePoint in Farm...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/20/2006

How to convert objectSID value in Active Directory from binary form to string (SDDL representation)

How to convert objectSID value in Active Directory from binary form to string (SDDL representation)...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/04/2006

Utilizing new features of MIIS SP1 for dealing with organizations where employees may have multiple jobs and work at multiple locations

Utilizing new features of MIIS SP1 for dealing with organizations where employees may have multiple...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 04/15/2005

Provisioning to Novell eDirectory using MIIS: Setting initial eDirectory Password

Provisioning to Novell eDirectory using MIIS: Setting initial eDirectory Password This posting is...

Author: Alex Tcherniakhovski Date: 03/10/2005