This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm There could be many reasons why tracking Active Directory objects...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm In this blog I will describe the steps which will simplify...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm Analyzing run history logs is an essential tasks in ensuring...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm The question of how the records stored in various repositories...

Conceptually within a Federation Trust configuration one party holds accounts of the participating users and another party serves applications to such users. The party holding the accounts is typically referred to as account domain and the ADFS server...

  We will need an ADFS (STS) in order to provide authentication services for our application. Follow this link for instructions on setting up ADFS server. Install IIS on the application server In addition to the defaults add ASP.NET and accept the...

  In general installation of ADFS Service is a very straight forward process, nevertheless there are a couple of points worth paying special attention to: Registration of the SPN for the ADFS Service Granting access to the private key of the SSL...

  This walkthrough outlines the process of publishing a claims aware application through UAG SP1. Links to building pre-requisite components How to install and configure ADFS Service How to create a test claims-aware application follow this link...

Ensuring consistency of the data stored in Active Directory should be one of the top priorities in achieving the overall security of an enterprise. By consistency in this context I imply how well the organization structure of a company is represented...

Since I often need to quickly load Windows Server 2008 OS in my lab environment, I decided to invest some time into automating this procedure. In the process of doing so, I ran into some interesting challenges, hence this blog. Objective In my scenario...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Recently I had a chance to work with Outlook Live Directory Synchronization tool. For those who don’t know, this tool allows to synchronize on premise AD objects with...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm In this walkthrough we will examine the steps required to setup...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This screen-cast outlines the steps required in automating deployment...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This screen-cast outlines the necessary configuration steps...

This walkthrough will concentrate on mitigating some of the security limitations of MOM 2005 when managing machines, which are part of a workgroup environment, or to be more specific which are not part of an Active Directory Forest. We will look at how to utilize PKI infrastructure in conjunction with IPSec capabilities of the Windows platform to perform mutual authentication based on X509 certificates. ...

This walk-through outlines the steps required to configure SCOM 2007 to perform mutual authentication with non-domain joined machines using X509 certificates. Such configuration provides high level of security in the scenario of having to manage non-domain joined machines using SCOM 2007 ...

ISA 2006 can accommodate a variety of deployment scenarios. Here are just some of them: perimeter firewall, remote access gateway, application publishing reverse proxy, and outbound web proxy. This screen-cast explores the capabilities of ISA 2006 as an outbound web proxy. The topics covered in this screen-cast closely match those of the typical requirements put forward by our customers. Specifically, we will examine the following: 1. Integration with Active Directory by providing seamless authentication and access control options 2. Integration with 3rd party URL filtering solutions. We will examine integration with WebSense as an example. 3. Inspection of traffic channeled inside SSL 4. High availability and fault tolerance options 5. Manageability ...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm In this screen -cast we will explore how to configure end-to...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This screencast explores a scenario of calling WMI interface...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This screencast explores a framework for using workflow to...

Adding self-service component to your ILM 2007 solutions by utilizing MySite SharePoint facility In this walkthrough I am taking a look at a possibility of utilizing MySite facility of SharePoint as a mechanism to provide self-service for ILM 2007 based solution. Specifically, I will examine a scenario of using MySite to trigger updates of personal information, and propagating such information into other systems (ex. Active Directory). ...

In this blog I explore the possibilities of using information stored in SharePoint Services V3.0 lists to drive provisioning processes (specifically integration with Active Directory). The idea behind this approach is to merge provisioning and synchronization capabilities of ILM with collaboration and workflow components of SharePoint Services 3.0. Please, follow this link for a complete walkthrough. ...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm Quite often we need to pull some data stored in a SharePoint...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This helper dll (attached below in this blog) will allow you...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm By now everybody must have heard about SQL injection attacks...