Lync trial and Active Directory changes

Hi,
I want to install a trial of Lync server and when I install it says I need to prepare Active Directory
I only want to test Lync but I do not want to make unnecessary permanant changes to Active Directory.
Should I proceed with preparing Active Directory? What happens to active directory if I later uninstall the Lync server?
Thank you.
http://peteroy.blogspot.com/

If you don't have a test environment and have to make the changes to production then they will be permanent.
You cannot remove changes applied to an Active Directory Schema. The only option there would be to perform an Active Directory Restore to a backup saved prior top the Schema extension. Very messy!
If you decide not to proceed with Lync there will be no harm to the system other than unused schema extensions.

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Oct 6 13:52:23: T+: port: tty515
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The 1113 acs failed reports shows:
External DB is not operational
thanks,
james

Hi James,
We get External DB is not operational. Could you confirm if under External Databases > Unknown User Policy, and verify you have the AD/ Windows database at the top?
this error means the external server might not correctly configured on ACS external database section.
Another point is to make sure we have remote agent installed on supported windows server.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_solution_engine/4.2/installation/guide/remote_agent/rawi.html#wp289013
Also provide the Auth logs from the server running remote agent, e.g.:-
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Frank, thanks for your response :)
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I am from a school in london. We currently have 8 servers (7 running Server 2003 and a recently installed Mac server running os x server 10.5)
We have recently installed new macs into our media room and need them to be set up to work with the current domain setup.
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Yes, I am not giving the real domain name here.
No prob. just checking, sometimes people have weird domain names never know if they are real or they expect them to be real or they put domain names owned by someone else on their internal network eek.
Not really needed to use mac.school.org internally, that is in local LAN. The thing to understand about DNS is the scope for which a DNS zone is relevant WRT a client machine — inside LAN or on Internet, and which DNS server is authoritative for a domain. Authoritative in the sense of 'the final word'.
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So you have set DNS forwarders on the Mac machine?
I really don't believe that the machine's hostname is changing, it is statically configured. What I believe is happening is that DNS name resolution is telling you different things at different times because you are using different DNS servers.
On mac machine terminal type $less /etc/resolv.conf and copy paste what it says. In server app Services | DNS right side does it say you have forwarders?
Still it is not good to have two DNS domains in your internal LAN, there is no need to have school.org on the mac DNS unless it is going to be fully setup to be authoritative in the internal LAN for the domain school.org. You can have school.org on the Internet (Internet scope of users point 1) and school.local on internal machine (LAN scope of users).
Lookup has started…
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;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
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;example.com.                   IN        ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com.     10800          IN        SOA          example.com. admin.example.com. 2013010907 3600 900 1209600 86400
example.com.     10800          IN         NS          server.example.com.
example.com.     10800          IN         MX          10 server.example.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
server.example.com. 10800       IN          A          192.168.1.20
Received 145 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 2 ms

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We have Oracle 9i R2 and windows 2003 Active Directory as domain controller on the same server.
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If I remove the server of being a domain controller with AD (dcpromo out, and losing the Administrator profile on that machine) and leave only Oracle on it, will Oracle still be functional?Yes. But I'd check file access rights. Anyway you'll still have local Admin account available. Think about:
. I got a domain admin account
. I install Oracle
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I have configured several WLANs with WPA2 and 8021.x which authenticate users through Radius server (Windows Internet authentication service) that conects with an Active Directory, into the AD exists one user group for each WLAN but the problem is that any user that was added to some group can get access to any WLAN, does anyboby know if I need some configuraion on the WLC to restric that?
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Hi Scott,
I have done some test modifying the Radius Policy to look at called station ID and test too looking at the NAS-ID, In the first case, I change the Call Station ID Type into WLC RADIUS Authentication Servers configuration to AP MAC Address:SSID and AP Name:SSID and into the Radius Server using .*:SSID-NAME$ and SSID-NAME$ ,but it blocks access for any user. In the second case, I change the NAS-ID into WLC WLAN and interface confguration and into the radius server Policy to match all, but it doesn´t have any impact, what other test could I try?
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Folks,
I have a problem in the internal email routing. My network is spread across various regions and the branch offices are connected together in a mpls network (full mesh). Every region has its own Exchange Server with all roles installed and the smtp connection
to the outside world is linked to two Exchange servers in the headquarter server farm.
The problem is that internally I often see emails going across the Exchange Servers in the branch offices where there is low bandwidth (from 3 to 5 Mbps), thus email are sent first to these servers instead of going immediately to the Exchange hosting
the mailboxes of the intended recipients. This happens also with inbound emails.
This causes slowness in the email system and sometimes also the network with these branch offices suffers from packet loss or very high latency.
I know that Exchange is a site-aware application and uses the Active Directory topology for message routing and to communicate with the services that are running on other Exchange 2013 computers. For this reason I have checked the Active Directory Sites
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Apart from the fact that clients use logon servers which are not supposed to use in the far remote offices, I am concerned of changing the Exchange Infrastructure whilst the email system is running and I would like to ask your opinion about my next steps:
1) Create subnets for every office
2) Create sites and then link them to the subnets done in point 1
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Apart from the valid questions on why the previous Exchange Administrator have forgotten to set up the Active Directory (Topology) Sites and Services...
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should have had only the mailbox and the cas role)...
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Thank you very much for your link. This is exactly the page I have read just before posting my question here. It is not easy for me to understand why this has been setup this way by a Microsoft certified engineer.
There are specific rules to follow when Active Directory and Exchange are located in multiple sites and I am not a skilled Exchange Administrator... he keeps saying that it is correct and also tells that if I go forward with my ideas there is the
risk to increase the level of complexity. I prefer more complexity than default setting, and as a consequence of that, connectivity problems!
Hopefully everything goes well. I will post my results here once I have done the changes
Regards

OS X Server and Active Directory

Hi
I'm trying to use OS X Server 10.5 with Active Directory and have got to the stage where I can view AD users and groups in Workgroup Manager and have authenticated on the domain.
However, if I try and change a user's password I get "The password could not be set. The action failed because you are not authorized to perform the operation."
Also, if I try and create an account on the domain I receive the following - "Got unexpected error Error of type eDSNoStdMappingAvailable (-14140) on line 4267 of /SourceCache/WorkgroupManager/WorkgroupManager-319/PMMUGMainView.mm".
I can delete accounts using Workgroup Manager and have confirm this has worked by checking in AD so can't understand what's going on.
Any help greatly appreciated!

You should post your question in the OS X Server forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96

OID and Active Directory

1 Does Oracle OID integrate with Active Directory to synch data with Active Directory periodically?
2 Marshall data from Active Directory on demand (live link)?
3 Does Oracle Single Sign-on solution work with multiple directories (i.e. OID and AD both being used by Oracle Single Sign-on)
4 Can Oracle Single-Sing-on work with a Desktop login into a Domain (also called NT Authentication or Desktop authentication).

This is what I have to share with you....For further details refer link http://otn.oracle.com/products/oid/index.html and Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide.
1 Does Oracle OID integrate with Active Directory to synch data with Active Directory periodically?
For synchronizing from Microsoft Active Directory to Oracle Internet Directory, you need to track changes in Microsoft Active Directory and configure your Active directory connector giving its URL, user account and password to be used by the Active Directory connector, its DIT info on domain which contain the users/groups. And in the Active Directory synchronization profile you'll have to set the mapping rule.
2 Marshall data from Active Directory on demand (live link)?
Yes, its possible to migrate data between directories. Configure your Active Directory connector and External auth Plug-in. And use the Directory Integration and Provisioning Assistant.
3 Does Oracle Single Sign-on solution work with multiple directories (i.e. OID and AD both being used by Oracle Single Sign-on)
Yes, its possible. When a user tries to log in, the OracleAS Single Sign-On server tries to verify the credentials the user enters against those stored in Oracle Internet Directory. If the user credentials are not there, then the Oracle directory server invokes the Active Directory external authentication plug-in. This plug-in verifies the user credentials in Microsoft Windows. If the verification is successful, then the Oracle directory server notifies the OracleAS Single Sign-On accordingly.
4 Can Oracle Single-Sing-on work with a Desktop login into a Domain (also called NT Authentication or Desktop authentication).
Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On enables native authentication, also called autologin, in a Microsoft Windows environment. Once logged into the Windows desktop, the user automatically has access to Oracle components. OracleAS Single Sign-On automatically logs the user into the Oracle environment using user's Kerberos credentials.

ACS 5.2 does not check Active directory changes

Hi all,
I am working with ACS 5.2 and using Radius authentication for vpn client.
The authentication method used is Active Directory in an Windows enviroment with multiple domains in the same forest.
My problem occurs when i change a user from one group to another in Active Directory. After that i receive the following message when try to connect:
15039 Selected Authorization Profile is DenyAccess
The message is because match the default policy.
Another user in the same AD group works fine.
All domain in the forest have trust relation each other.
I am using universal groups to include users from all domain belongs this forest.
Can anyone help me?
Regards

Dear all,
Hope you can help me with a similar issue i am facing on migration from Cisco ACS 4.1.24 to Cisco 5.3.0.40
and testing Radius authentication for vpn client users.
The authentication method used is external Active Directory and for some users authenticating to the external AD via ACS, the following message is obtained:
"15039 Selected Authorization Profile is DenyAcces", which results in Auth failure.
Other users on the same AD group seem to work fine and there are no changes performed on the AD for any of the concerned users.
Looking at the detail report for the user, confirms that no attributes are returned to the Radius(under the other attributes field) from the external server. The Radius also returns the following messages:
"24412 User not found in Active Directory"
"22056 Subject not found in the applicable identity store(s)"
Within the ACS Identity sequence in the ID store, the sequence is set to match on AD first and then Internal user. The Identity for the default network profile(for Radius users) is configured to General sequence. The same user/s seem to work fine when swithced to ACS4.
We are also looking at possible NTP sync issue with the ACS/AD or any NTLM/Kerberos auth issues or any issues related to applying the latest ACS patch to the box.Please let me know if there is any AD related configs to be modified.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks and Regards.

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