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2012-02-06 Initial Post
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Office Communications Server 2007 (non-R2)

csvde -f getOCSUsersListCSVDE-Output.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=user)(msRTCSIP-UserEnabled=TRUE)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)))" -s dc001 -l "displayName" -j .

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269181 for explanation of userAccountControl and using bitwise filters with LDAP.

2012-02-02 Updated

2012-01-23 Initial post

One of our application administrators asked me to help him troubleshoot why LDAP user authentication didn't work correctly in his application, Oracle Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) 9.3.1. I decided to look into LDAP authentication a little more and here are some notes I made. I wasn't able to find a nice simple article that answers this question: How is LDAP user authentication handled in AD? (more…)

2011-10-01 Reformatted for clarity

2009-01-13 Initial post

BACKGROUND

By default, Kerberos will encrypt the LDAP authentication only, but not the actual LDAP traffic. You can enable LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) to encrypt the entire LDAP session in Windows AD. (more…)

2011-02-12 Initial Post

Windows Server 2003 SP2

Office Communications Server 2007 (non-R2)

If you want to search for OCS users with federation enabled, use the simple LDAP query filter below. It took me some testing to figure out that "TRUE" had to be in all uppercase/all capitals. Other LDAP filters are case insenstitive, but it looks like searching for boolean values, at least in this case, requires upppercase. (more…)

2011-02-14 Updated

2011-02-12 Initial Post

Windows Server 2003 SP2

Exchange Server 2003 SP2

In the IT business, sometimes what seems like a simple question can result in a few hours of work to get a satisfactory answer. The other day I was asked to look at why a query for all ActiveSync enabled users wasn't returning the correct results. The query was using the msExchOmaAdminWirelessEnable attribute. That attribute holds the values for the settings under user properties --> Exchange Features tab --> Mobile Services. (more…)