Creating user associations
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Q:
I have an existing AD environment, and I've introduced NetWare into the mix. Last week I rolled out the Novell Client to the desktops thinking that I could just map to the server using eDirectory. I'm trying to configure Identity
Manager, but I'm hung up on the policies. How do I tell it to synchronize passwords between existing users in NDS and existing users in AD? Can I manually associate accounts? Do I need to?
A:
You need to make associations between the two accounts. To do this you
will need to find a common attribute to base a matching rule on. This
is usually done with CN or WorkforceID.
Once you find a common attribute to match on then you will need to force a migrate from eDir. This is done in iManger...its a link under the main view of a driver. It would be best to test this on a single user before you migrate all your users.
You can also make associations manually. AD associations are based on the GUID attribute. There is a cool tool that will extract an AD's GUID based on the CN. It's located here:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14390.html
However, I would not suggest you follow the path of making associations manually. It will get messy if you have large amounts of users. When you successfully have users synced you can then start looking at password sync.
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