The Active Directory driver can be configured for use with a Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) instance. You import a configuration file to create a driver to connect to the ADAM instance.
There are multiple ways to configure your environment to synchronize the information. For example, Novell® recommends setting up your own certification authority (CA) in order to issue certificates that can be used for SSL connections to ADAM. If you already have server certificates, or if you have access to another CA that can issue valid certificates, you can ignore the steps that describe how to set up your own CA. Likewise, if you don't want to configure SSL (required if you want to set passwords on the Subscriber channel) then you can skip the entire section about configuring Certificate Services.
Any discussion of setting passwords is referring to the Subscriber channel (from IDM to ADAM). Password synchronization on the Publisher channel (from ADAM to IDM) is not currently possible, unless a regular user attribute (not the userPassword attribute) is used in ADAM to store the password.