Our client uses JICS (a web portal solution by Jenzabar Software) to
store user information and authentication in an ADAM directory. They
also have a standard AD directory as well. Is there a way to get AD to
continuously pull all ADAM data into AD? Or vice versa?

Re: Integrate an ADAM directory into AD? by Tomasz

Tomasz
Tue Aug 05 12:50:09 PDT 2008

sutcliffe1@gmail.com wrote:
> Our client uses JICS (a web portal solution by Jenzabar Software) to
> store user information and authentication in an ADAM directory. They
> also have a standard AD directory as well. Is there a way to get AD to
> continuously pull all ADAM data into AD? Or vice versa?


Question is what you want to achieve, there is few possible options:
1/ You can use ADAMSynch provided with ADAM to synchronize data from AD
to ADAM. You can also use IIFP (free version of MIIS) to synchronize
information about accounts from AD to ADAM or ADAM to AD (or both sides).

2/ If you are storing different identities in ADAM (for example external
users or customers) and in AD (corp users) you can just populate ADAM
instance with additional userproxy objects which will allow ADAM to
authenticate ADAM users and AD users, in second case using AD credentials.

Maybe if You will tell more about your scenario somebody will give you
more specific answer how to approach this.

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Re: Integrate an ADAM directory into AD? by sutcliffe1

sutcliffe1
Tue Aug 05 16:54:44 PDT 2008

Sorry I wasnt more specific...yes I'd definitely like to consider the
second method. The ADAM users are all student accounts, while faculty
and staff accounts are all housed in AD, in what I believe is a
Windows 2003 Server environment.

None of these accounts overlap (that is, none of the ADAM users also
appear in Active Directory). I am not sure where exactly the ADAM
database is stored. Is there a uniform format for an ADAM database? Or
is it program-specific?

Could you please tell me a bit more about populating ADAM with
userproxy objects?

Re: Integrate an ADAM directory into AD? by Tomasz

Tomasz
Wed Aug 06 01:29:46 PDT 2008

sutcliffe1@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry I wasnt more specific...yes I'd definitely like to consider the
> second method. The ADAM users are all student accounts, while faculty
> and staff accounts are all housed in AD, in what I believe is a
> Windows 2003 Server environment.
>
> None of these accounts overlap (that is, none of the ADAM users also
> appear in Active Directory). I am not sure where exactly the ADAM
> database is stored. Is there a uniform format for an ADAM database? Or
> is it program-specific?

ADAM database at the physical level it is ESE database and it is not
something you will access directly. From logical point of view ADAM is
LDAP directory with logical structure defined by someone who has
implemented it so I can't tell anything specific about your ADAM
instance logical design
>
> Could you please tell me a bit more about populating ADAM with
> userproxy objects?


These links should help

http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2005/09/08/configuring-and-running-adamsync-for-the-first-time.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2005/09/10/getting-a-log-from-adamsync.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2005/09/14/syncing-to-our-ou-synctargetou-nc-instead.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2005/09/15/synchronizing-only-the-attributes-you-really-want.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2005/09/23/adamsync-can-also-transform-users-in-to-proxy-users.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeff/archive/2007/04/01/synchronize-active-directory-to-adam-with-adamsync-step-by-step.aspx

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Tomasz Onyszko
http://www.w2k.pl/ - (PL)
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN)