Hi,

I am by no means an active directory expert, so go easy on me.

I have installed ADAM because I need to simulate connection of a third party
product to an Active Directory - which I dont have. So I thought ADAM would
be my answer.

The other product will supposedly extract computer records from AD and
import them for its own use, however I am beginning to think that ADAM will
not let me simulate the computer records that you would find in a full blown
AD installation. Can anybody confirm this for me, and if it is possible let
me know where I can read about how to do it?

Also, when I try to create a new Application Domain using ldp no matter how
I enter the new domains name, the name I enter is never displayed in the
object tree - it always displays the GUID assigned by ADAM. Is this a
feature, bug, orsomething I am doing wrong.

Thanks
Allen

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ADAM implements "application partitions" (also added to Win2003 Domain
Controllers) but not the Domain or other partitions used by domains and
forests so you might well find that while it IS Active Directory is is NOT
an AD Domain(or Forest) database.

If you really just need to test a "real domain AD" then you can easily
promote your server to a DC (in a separate forest) to perform the test.

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Herb Martin

I would not install another ADAM instance to get another partition. You need
to remember two different port numbers, more resources are used on the
machine, etc. If you need to have a distributed service at some point,
you'll have to maintain two separate config sets, etc. It's easy enough to
create a partition with dsmgmt.exe (the online half of what used to be
ntdsutil). Or you can do this from ldp, or from script. This is all pretty
simple stuff, and it is well defined in ADAM.CHM.

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the computer object class definition from a "real" Active Directory
installation and import it into you ADAM installation using the LDIDFDE
command line tool. If you do not have a real Active Directory where you can
export the computer class definition, please post here again with your email
and I will send a LDIF file to you that you can import into ADAM.
want to set up a new application domain, I recommend setting up a second
instance of ADAM.

Hi,

That LDIF file would be really helpful, I have no "real" AD server to get
one from.

Email address is agj@bigfoot.com

Regards
Allen Jones

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the computer object class definition from a "real" Active Directory
installation and import it into you ADAM installation using the LDIDFDE
command line tool. If you do not have a real Active Directory where you can
export the computer class definition, please post here again with your email
and I will send a LDIF file to you that you can import into ADAM.
want to set up a new application domain, I recommend setting up a second
instance of ADAM.

Hi Dmitri,

I have tried to create additional partitions using ldp as instructed in the
CHM and it seems to work. However, the DN listed for my new partition in the
tree view on the left hand side of ldp is never the name I gave it. It
always seems to display the GUID for the new partition as a child of the
CN=Partitions container.

For example
CN=70c9843a-de56-486c-9998-c265b73720bc,CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,CN={6
FFAF5BB-CC9B-4250-80AC-9D8CFD262B7E}

If I look at the new partitions attributes, my name is listed as the
displayName and nCName. This behavior seems odd and I am not sure if it is
working correctly or if this is a bug.

Regards
Allen Jones


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You are looking at the crossRef object that is created for your new
partition. The partition itself has the DN that you gave it (and the
crossRef has it in ncName, as you noted).

Just reconnect to the instance with LDP and you will see your new partition
listed in namingContexts in rootDSE.

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Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. You can not just bring a single
class in. You have to bring all of its dependents too, attributes it
references, its superclass (user, slightly different from ADAM's user
definition), etc. This is not easy.

If you just need this for testing, you are much better off and safer
installing a real DC somewhere.

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