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We are starting to get new Mac systems in for desktop replacements at work. In the past these were treated as completely standalone systems. Users had local home directories, and we weren’t even really backing them up due to the complications FileValut presented. I really hope Lion solves this with full disk encryption, but I’ve [...]
I’ve expanded my RADUM sync() method to create Windows user accounts using LDAP alone. This means I won’t have to resort to using the Windows command line. I thought this would be possible, especially after successfully creating Windows groups. I found out that I was in for a world of pain (at least initially). I [...]
Since I bought the D90 and Aperture 2, I’ve not done much with my RADUM module. I decided I better get it up to speed and accomplish something. All along I thought that I’d need to use Windows commands (dsadd, dsmod, etc.) to create objects in Active Directory. I tried using the add() method of [...]
I decided to rename my ActiveDirectory module to RADUM (Ruby Active Directory User Management) to avoid name conflicts with another ActiveDirectory Ruby module/gem I found previously. There might even be two, but I could be wrong about that. I did not look all that closely. This kind of makes sense anyway perhaps. I do plan [...]
I have been working more on my ActiveDirectory Ruby module. I ran into a problem I recall from when I did my original Perl program we are using to add users and groups to the AD in our Instructional Enterprise Support project. In that project I just made sure all users have the Domain Users [...]
A large portion of last quarter at work was spent implementing a model enterprise environment in VMware for a course that teaches enterprise development using web technologies. That is one of the reasons I’ve not written much here. I was also working on a Cocoa application that uses the Broccoli library to talk to a [...]