Questions tagged [ad-lds]

AD LDS is Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services and was previously known as ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode).

This is a role first made available in Windows Server 2008. ADLDS is a LDAP server. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96084 for an overview.

The following step by step guide should be useful to anyone new to ADLDS http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731246(v=WS.10).aspx .

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ADFS 4 with AD LDS (The object does not exist)

I have tried everything possible with my limited knowledge but I can't figure out whats wrong so hoping someone can just point the right direction. I have an ADFS 2016 server which works fine with our internal AD but I wanted to configure it with AD…
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Import sample Active Directory into LDAP

For development purposes so I can query and test a C# LDAP integration, I have set up an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance on my Windows 10 box. I need to populate this with an LDAP structure taken from a sample…
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AD LDS data refreshing from script

I need to setup a white pages servers located into a DMZ, which contains up to date identities information gathered from a remote OpenLDAP server with a specific account. I cannot enable syncrepl ont this server, AND I must use AD LDS as the…
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AD LDS - LDAP - How to set group's rights on container

I installed AD LDS on a W2012R2. Everything is working fine. Now, I want to create new Roles, to grant to groups permissions to create/modify/delete users in a certain container. (I used this article) For example, this is my instance…
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Can the objectGUID be specified on creation or changed afterward?

Our system links users in an LDAP store to users in a SQL database. The database has been around longer than the LDAP store though, and we'd like to bring pre-existing users from the database into LDAP. We would like to specify the objectGUID when…
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manage Windows users with AD LDS

I have a Windows 2008R2 server with about 30 users, which log in with remote desktop to use some application installed on the server itself I would move the users from local users to AD LDS, so I can can better manage it, and also replicate to…
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Setting up ADLDS and managing it with internal ADLDS users

I configured ADLDS according to this blog post. I went further and followed this Microsoft article about allowing internal users to access ADLDS thru ADSI Edit but whatever I do i get access denied (just asking me continuously for login and…
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Email address as rdn in Active Directory Application Mode - ADAM

Is it OK to use an email address as the CN attribute in ADAM (I don't mean the email/mail attribute)? I have a requirement that calls for ADAM for authentication and the user's email address as the CN (e.g. CN=jsmith@yahoo.com and…
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How to add a user in Active Directory with name longer than 20 characters?

I am using Windows 2008 R2 Server and trying to add a user in Active Directory. I am able to save user ID of length less than 20 characters. But when I try to increase this value to 30 characters I get this…
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Stand alone or free application to backup ADAM / AD LDS database files

Do you know any small standalone and free tool, that can be run in console, to backup / restore ADAM / AD LDS database files (like adamntds.dit, edbres00001.jrs etc.). I tried to stop ADAM service and copy / paste these files to other location but…
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Windows Server 2003 vs 2008 & ADAM vs AD LDS

Comparing Window Server 2003 to 2008, I know that ADAM (active directory application mode) has been replaced with AD LDS (active directory lightweight directory services). I am just wondering, if there are any other changes than just the name that…
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Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) best practice for clustering

We decide to use Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) for our application. But we cannot find the guide for clustering this service. Can anybody suggest or give a link to the best-practice for clustering Active Directory…
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Installing internet facing SharePoint 2010 with Active Directory Application Mode

Are there any known issues installing an internet-facing SharePoint 2010 with Active Directory Lightweight Services or is it a logical choice?
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Physical hardware required to enable AD LDS service, can it be placed as a stand alone server on the DMZ

If I want to implement AD LDS for a single application, does it require Physical hardware or it can be installed/enabled on web server or application server. As usually the web and app servers are placed in DMZ if the above option is not feasible…
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Application Requires Cross Domain Authentication - No trust

I've an application that going forward is going to require cross domain authentication using an AD service account across 2 separate organisations - for example domain A application needs to authenticate with domain B backend. Does anyone know of a…