The sections below contains a list of the key driver features.
The Active Directory driver can be installed locally on the following platforms:
Windows 2000, or 2003 with the latest Service Patch
The Active Directory driver can use the Remote Loader service. The Remote Loader service for the Active Directory driver can be installed on Windows 2000, or 2003 with the latest Service Patch
For more information about installing the Remote Loader services, see Installing the Remote Loader
in the Novell Identity Manager 3.5.1 Administration Guide.
The Active Directory driver does support Role-Based Entitlements, if it is selected during the configuration of the driver. The Role-Based Entitlement is revoked, the account is either disabled or deleted. For more information, see When account entitlement revoked in Section E.0, Properties of the Driver.
The Active Directory driver synchronizes passwords on both the Subscriber channel and the Publisher channel. For more information, see Section 7.0, Password Synchronization.
The Active Directory driver synchronizes User objects, Group objects, containers, and Exchange mailboxes. Exchange mailboxes are only synchronized if the options to manage Exchange mailboxes is selected during the configuration of the driver. For more information about the driver configuration, see Section 1.5, Default Driver Configuration. For more information about synchronizing Exchange accounts, see Section 5.4, Default Configuration Parameters.