In my opinion Imail’s Active Directory integration is rudimentary at best. They took the all or nothing approach. The following code is something I wrote to let users logon with their Active Directory account to manage their Distribution Lists. It generates a random password in Imail and then automatically logs them in to the system. The user never knows their Imail password and they think its all connected.
Its also a simple example of HTML form automation with javascript.
Quick ADMX GPO policy to disable IP6 on your network according to MS KB 929852
IP6_disable.admx
IP6_disable.adml
Here is my AdamSync config using the ProxyUser class. It took me a while to get everything going right but it works and after a full sync the incremental syncs take less than 30 seconds.
We do not sync our entire AD partition only a subset. After alot of reading objectCategory is better then objectClass because objectCategory is indexed in AD.
I found this utility oldcmp on the internet that makes it easier to find old computer accounts in active directory.
You have to be careful with this utility so you do not accidentally delete computer accounts that are being used.
Another note, in my testing Macintosh computers do not update their computer password as frequently as PCs do.
This little vbscript wrapper will let you start a logon script hidden. Our logon scripts are batch and perl files and they all start with the black box. If you launch the script like hidelaunch.vbs logon.bat it will start the logon script hidden.
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set args = wscript.arguments
command = ""
for each strArg in args
command = strArg + " "
next
wshshell.run command, 0, false
To parse the UserAccountControl field in Active Directory you have to use a bit-wise and of “&” and not “&&” to check the value. Below are some examples Here is a MSDN page that has more information.
This MS site also has more values listed.
#Check if the account is Disabled $strStatus & 2 #Check if the account is Locked $strStatus & 16
VBscript that reads the users info property in AD for a list of printers to map.
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Set WshNetwork = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
set oUser = GetObject("LDAP://CN=" & WshNetwork.username & ",OU=Users,DC=Domain,DC=Local")
Printers=split(oUser.Get("info"),VbCrLf)
first=True
For i = LBound(Printers) to UBound(Printers)
If first = True Then
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection(trim(Printers(i)))
WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter(trim(Printers(i)))
first=False
Else
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection(trim(Printers(i)))
End If
Next
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