RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL

2004-12-04 Thread Glenn Corbett
*shudder* Don't forget however that if you go down this path, make sure you A) Don't call Microsoft - they will laugh at you, charge your credit card, then hang up B) have a rollback plan to the standard GINA C) remember that the gina will most likely be replaced during a service pack (and somet

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore AD

2004-12-04 Thread Glenn Corbett
Al, Isn't the underlying technology and the recovery of the data essentially the same ?. All of the entries (both in Exchange and AD) are simply records within tables within a database. Exchange basically flags the mailbox record as deleted and then applies the defined mailbox retention settings

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore AD

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
To be clear, they don't "mimic" tombstone reanimation, they probably leverage it. Tombstone reanimation should probably be thought of as a powerful API applications can leverage, not a solution itself. Through tombstone reanimation one can bring an object back to life with properties that coul

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore AD

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
Yes and no. Thinking of AD as just a database with a bunch of records ignores some of the most complicated pieces, namely replication. We are fully multimaster with the understanding that we maintain loose consistency and support some other functionalities that make this even harder than it mi

RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Fleischman
I can't speak for the entire company, but I have debugged many custom passfilt and gina issues before. Have you had problems? If so please let m eknow, I'd be curious to hear what they were. You can ping me offline on that if you would like. I would point out that despite the fact that msgina.