Utilizing MIIS for password synchronization between Active Directory and Oracle (Establishing a Proof of Concept Environment)

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Background information
Many Line of Business applications (LOB) utilize Oracle user accounts as a means of authentication. This blog explores the possibility of utilizing MIIS for the purposes of synchronizing passwords between Active Directory and Oracle databases. More specifically as users change their passwords in Active Directory this password change should propagate to Oracle database and thus keeping those two passwords in sync.

Please follow this link for a complete step-by-step guide.

Since this blog was originally published over a year ago, I received a few e-mails asking me to help troubleshooting some issues related to setting up this environment. Typically in trying to assess the issue I would need to debug the custom password extension in order to get to the bottom of the problem. Since debugging MIIS extensions is not really that complex of a process I decided to put together this walkthrough that will show you how you can debug this custom rule extension.