This entry covers registering servers and components as Windows Services,so you no longer need to start them by hand on reboot. Install as described in Installing Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 . Log on as Administrator or a member of the local group of Administrators. Register…
Ugggh....last week we were reminded of how social media platforms are vulnerable to identity security problems. Two colleagues of mine were hacked in the twitter and an add was posted to my facebook account via cross-posting feature in Facebook (I love uggh boots, I just didn't plan on…
DSEE 7.0 is available for download today here with new documentation here . The critical document you want to look at is the upgrade and migration guide here . Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Boosts Speed and Performance: Considered one of the best extranet LDAP Directory Servers in the…
Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 just released. The 7.0 release is a new version for Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 allows companies to grow fasterand easier. The significant improvement in performance allows companiesto accelerate their…
The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC3 . OpenDS 2.2 offers the following new features from OpenDS 2.0 : Scalable import and indexing External changelog compliant with the Internet-Draft "Definition of an Object Class to Hold…
This entry takes you through Directory Server Enterprise Editioninstallation on Windows Server 2008, showing screen shots taken while installingDirectory Service Control Center with Directory Server and DirectoryProxy Server on a Windows system. I wrote a similar entry for DSEE 6.0 in March 2007 .…
Congratulations to the DSEE 7.0 team! Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 released today. You can download the software for your platform at http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_srvr_ee/get1.jsp . The documentation should follow shortly at…
I recently attended Gartner IAM in San Diego and the topic of Cloud Computing permeated the titles of presentations throughout the conference. Eric Sachs , from Google gave a good presentation on applying IAM principles to applications in the cloud. RSA talked about network based security…
The Sun Identity Management team will be giving a webinar next Wednesday to discuss the very important topic of Identity Management and healthcare. As the healthcare legislation moves through congress the increase of 36M patients on healthcare providers, insurance companies, and patients will be…
The Sun Identity Management team will be giving a webinar next Wednesday to discuss the very important topic of Identity Management and healthcare. As the healthcare legislation moves through congress the increase of 36M patients on healthcare providers, insurance companies, and patients will be…
Pavel Heimlich just announced today , on the project users mailing list that the OpenDS project is now (partly) localized in Polish. Translation of the messages for the command line tools has been contributed by 2 members of the Polish OpenDS Community : Bartłomiej Pelc and Marek Roszkowski . Many…
SAVE THE DATE - Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sun Identity Management User Group Session Grammercy Park Room Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY The Sun Identity Management User Group will meet for its next session at Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY on Wednesday, December…
SAVE THE DATE - Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sun Identity Management User Group Session Grammercy Park Room Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY The Sun Identity Management User Group will meet for its next session at Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY on Wednesday, December…
One of the things we're the most proud of in the OpenDS project is the simplicity of installation and initial configuration, thanks to the Java Web Start QuickSetup installer . We say that you can download, install and configure OpenDS to run on your machine in less than 3 minutes and 6 clicks .…
This week Google launched a new service called Google Dashboard which can be found in the account settings in top right hand corner under "personal settings". The service is a great idea for a couple of reasons. One, it served as a reminder (at least to this user) of all the services…
Next week, Nov. 9-11, the Identity Management Team travels down to Gartner Identity Access Management conference to showcase two of our latest releases DSEE 7 and Role Manager 5. Gartner IAM is a great event because it not only gather's together experienced practitioners in the identity…
Next week, Nov. 9-11, the Identity Management Team travels down to Gartner Identity Access Management conference to showcase two of our latest releases DSEE 7 and Role Manager 5. Gartner IAM is a great event because it not only gather's together experienced practitioners in the identity…
This weekend the Directory Community said goodbye to a true hero, Don Bowen. Many on the Directory Team at Sun had the pleasure of working with Don and will miss his energy and enthusiasm for life, technology and his family. Our condolences go out to his family. We will miss you Don! You can…
As Ludo mentions in his announcement about RC 1 for OpenDS 2.2, this release adds external changelog access. Directory applications access the changelog to follow what updates are happening to directory data, and so find the changelog useful when aiming to stay synchronized. Rob Byrne, who has been…
Did you attend the event I talked about last week ? Remember, it was a webinar about Sun DSEE 7 and Role Manager 5. Well, if you could not attend the webinar, you can watch it now, or download the video . The slides are also available . Enjoy. Technorati Tags: directory-server , ldap
Yesterday, Neil Ghandi , Matt Hamlin , Etienne Remillon and Nick Wooler gave a quick overview of what is new in Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Here are just a few of the great highlights that were discussed during the presentation. Of course, you can get the full video…
Yesterday, Neil Ghandi , Matt Hamlin , Etienne Remillon and I gave a quick overview of what is new in Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Here are just a few of the great highlights that were discussed during the presentation. Of course, you can get the full video embeded…
Yesterday I've explained how to restrict LDAP attribute values using Regular Expression based syntaxes , with the OpenDS directory server . There is another use case for restricting attribute values: when there is an enumerated list of possible values. It's possible to define finite list of…
Sun Learning Services will be holding a beta class for Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (Directory Server EE) 7.0 Administration training in San Francisco, CA, from Tuesday, December 1 through Friday, December 4, 2009. Tuition is waived and there will be no charge for your valued partnership…
Last Oct. 21, Neil Gandhi and Nick Wooler offered a Webinar for you on improving compliance, access control, and performance with Sun's latest releases of Role Manager and Directory Server Enterprise Edition . The presentation is available at…
One of the question that I get frequently asked when discussing with customers or coworkers about defining custom schema and attributes, is how to restrict the values that can be set to an attribute. From a pure LDAP standard point of view, you would need to define a new syntax and describe the…
Sun's Identity Team have been busy over the summer! On Oct. 9, 2009 the Identity Management Team announced the release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Next Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 8:00am PT, Neil Ghandi (Role Manager Technical Product Manager) and Nick Wooler…
On Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 8:00am PST, Nick Wooler , product manager for Directory Services, and Neil Ghandi, Role Manager Technical Product Manager will be giving an overview of some of the great features that exist in the new releases of Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun Role…
Sun's Identity Team have been busy over the summer! On Oct. 9, 2009 the Identity Management Team announced the release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Next Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 8:00am PT, Neil Ghandi (Role Manager Technical Product Manager) and I will be giving…
The OpenDS LDAP directory server is localized by default in many different languages, thanks to our community . All (well we try) messages from the client tools, command lines or graphical, are translated in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), German, French, Japanese, Korean and Spanish (and soon…
The OpenDS development team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.2.0-RC1 which is the first release candidate for OpenDS 2.2. OpenDS 2.2 offers the following new features from OpenDS 2.0 : Scalable import and indexing External changelog compliant with the…
I've posted the results of a Directory Server 5.2 patch 6 benchmark on my wordpress blog. highlights: Sun Netra x4250 13 millions of entries Sun Directory Server 5.2 patch 6 ZFS Solaris 10 update 7 17,000 searches per second
Arnaud a co-worker from the Sun directory engineering team, has taken the term "Directory Engineering" to a new level. Arnaud has always been a doer, someone who starts playing with things, investigate, test, benchmark... Recently, he's been deploying OpenDS on Amazon cloud ,…
Rationale Doing so many benchmarks, profiling and other various performance related activities, I had to find a way to "keep an eye" on things while fetching emails, chatting on IM and the like. Having some experience in past projects with microcontrollers, although on Windows, I figured…
Rationale Doing so many benchmarks, profiling and other various performance related activities, I had to find a way to "keep an eye" on things while fetching emails, chatting on IM and the like. Having some experience in past projects with microcontrollers, although on Windows, I figured…
I just thought I'd make a note of the common things I do and funny enough, I think this blog might be the closest thing I have from a sticky note / persistent backup ... so here goes: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH # enable power management pfexec echo "S3-support …
I just thought I'd make a note of the common things I do and funny enough, I think this blog might be the closest thing I have from a sticky note / persistent backup ... so here goes: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH # enable power management pfexec echo "S3-support …
Talking with a friend recently, he told me about his miserable experience trying to get his workstation to work with four monitors. Now, I was surprised at first because there are lots (ok, maybe not lots, but a sizeable number) of people with quad-head workstations out there, so obviously that…
Talking with a friend recently, he told me about his miserable experience trying to get his workstation to work with four monitors. Now, I was surprised at first because there are lots (ok, maybe not lots, but a sizeable number) of people with quad-head workstations out there, so obviously that…
As usual, I try to give as much away in my titles as I can. This one is no different: it just works.... With 2009.06, you needed to build your own drivers for ethernet and wifi. Pretty much a non starter for 99% of users, understandably so: when it just works for Linux and Windows, why sweat it on…
As usual, I try to give as much away in my titles as I can. This one is no different: it just works.... With 2009.06, you needed to build your own drivers for ethernet and wifi. Pretty much a non starter for 99% of users, understandably so: when it just works for Linux and Windows, why sweat it on…
OpenSolaris 2010.02 early access build 124 is really faring pretty well so far. It isn't free of issues, granted, but at the same time, it has improved leaps and bounds on laptop support, especially for netbooks, thanks to a passionate and dedicated team writing up a bunch of device drivers for…
OpenSolaris 2010.02 early access build 124 is really faring pretty well so far. It isn't free of issues, granted, but at the same time, it has improved leaps and bounds on laptop support, especially for netbooks, thanks to a passionate and dedicated team writing up a bunch of device drivers for…
I just saw that my colleague Hubert Le Van Gong has been elected to replace Pat Patterson as the OpenSSO Community Lead. It is sad to see Pat leaving Sun. Pat has been a source of inspiration in my role as OpenDS Community Manager and we've been collaborating in numerous occasions. Hubert…
We have just uploaded OpenDS 2.1.0-build002, built from revision 5868 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder. The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/2.1.0-build002/OpenDS-2.1.0-build002.zip The direct link to download the DSML gateway…
Rationale Why not run your Authentication service in the cloud? This is the first step to having a proper cloud IT. There are numerous efforts going to ease deploying your infrastructure in the cloud, from Sun and others, from OpenSSO to glassfish, from SugarCRM to Domino, and on goes the list.…
Rationale Why not run your Authentication service in the cloud? This is the first step to having a proper cloud IT. There are numerous efforts going to ease deploying your infrastructure in the cloud, from Sun and others, from OpenSSO to glassfish, from SugarCRM to Domino, and on goes the list.…
Rationale I was recently faced with the challenge to track down and eliminate outliers from a customer's traffic and I had to come up with some some of tool to help in diagnosing where these long response time transactions originated from. Not really rocket science -hardly anything IS rocket…
Rationale I was recently faced with the challenge to track down and eliminate outliers from a customer's traffic and I had to come up with some some of tool to help in diagnosing where these long response time transactions originated from. Not really rocket science -hardly anything IS rocket…
Rationale As far fetched as it may seem, with the growing use of virtualization and cloud computing, the average image instance that LDAP authentication systems are having to run on look more like your average netbook than a supercomputer. With that in mind, I set out to find a reasonable…