mikko’s log

Make a backup copy of your AD before you go any further.

Install your new server, and join it to the domain as a member server. Before you can run dcpromo on the new 2008 server, you must run adprep on your schema master, to prepare the Active Directory schema to support Windows 2008 domain controllers. The installation DVD contains a directory called sources\adprep. Go there and run:

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Here are two simple scripts written in Python to fetch information about users from Active Directory. The AD schema has been augmented with the Microsoft Services For Unix schema, which will allow to map Unix uids to Windows user accounts.

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First, create a user account for your Apache in the Active Directory. Let’s assume the AD Kerberos realm is KOO.FI, and the user name we have created is “apache”. Also create a computer account, let’s call that “apachesrv”.

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