ABAP Role Assignments stored in MSAD

Hi all,
unfortunately I have only found contradicting information in relation to the possibility to manage ABAP role assignments using a MS Active Directory.
We plan to implement a WAS (ABAP) 6.40 SP14, synchronise data between the WAS and the corporate MSAD. While WAS (ABAP) is not capable of MSAD based authentication I suspect it is possible to manage the user/role assignments in MSAD. Am I right in my assumptions (see list below) that the following data entities can/cannot be managed and synchronised/stored with the WAS (ABAP) out of the box?
WAS ABAP
1. possible - user master data (e.g. userName, address, etc.)
2. possible - user/role assignments
3. not possible - user passwords (however, can be bypassed through SSO based on NTLM)
Portal UME
1. possible - user master data
2. possible - user password
3. possible - role/group assignments
4. possible - group/user assignments
5. possible - user/group assignments
6. possible - user/role assignments
Thanks for the help!!
Cheers Stefan

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. But ours was a different problem.
The issue was with a faulty reconciliation job that had been fixed. But it had done its damage before the fix and this caused the inconsistent behavior.
During the reconciliation job (to update changed and add new backend roles in IDM) various task trigger attributes get disabled and then re-enabled after the import. These disabled triggers did not get re-enabled for the privileges on some systems. And the reconciliation job was also delta enabled, so only new privileges, after the initial load, should have been impacted. But impact to many privileges -- all privileges of some target systems -- misled our investigation. The timing of the reconciliation job executions kind of added to the confusion and inconsistencies during the initial setup. But we finally tracked this down and wrote a custom job to fix the triggers for only the affected privileges. Assignments to all systems started to function successfully as expected.
Best regards,
Ashok

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GOT IT THANKS.
Hi Prashant.
Good morning and wishes.
Can you please help me understand this.
I understand from HR person that position is uniquely defined (from hire to retire)
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Rather.
How could the removal of roles based on position become completely effective on the system.
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Edited by: Indumathy Narayanan on Dec 7, 2011 12:09 PM
Edited by: Indumathy Narayanan on Dec 7, 2011 1:42 PM
Edited by: Indumathy Narayanan on Dec 7, 2011 5:17 PM

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