FW: RE: Who's where, and how do we know?

Subject: FW: RE: Who's where, and how do we know?
From: mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:56:15 -0500



> From: David Neeley [mailto:dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com]
>
> If you had an existing resource, it is likely you'd know about it.

> The most elegant solution would be for your IT department to establish
> an LDAP resource that would handle such things...(LDAP=Lightweight
> Directory Access Protocol).
>
[...]
> Microsoft incorporates LDAP version 2 interoperability in its Active
> Directory system and has incorporated much of the version 3
> recommendations into it, and seems committed to be fully compliant
> with version 3 upon its finalization.

> However, there are many other implementations as well.
>
> All of which, however, leaves you now in the tedious position of
> having to do it manually unless there is a directory service on your
> Intranet somewhere of which you are not aware...or, perhaps, one on
> the IT system of each of the discrete parts of your organization that
> may not have yet been integrated.

Some parts had the latter, and I'm now told that the former is indeed
"in the works", and will be rolled out.... "soon"...

A couple of people have mentioned Active Directory. I've paid no attention
to it since a few years ago when some local IT guy said: "Oh Jeez, that
stuff's as holey as those ! -at- #$% Activex controls. You activate that on my
network and I'll have to kill your whole family!" (or words to that effect).

Our (remote from me) IT director (was away for a few days, not snubbing me,
after all... :-) just responded to my inquiry on this current issue and says
that great things are coming shortly. The brief description sounded like an
LDAP implementation of some kind. So, I'll just hold my breath and delay,
delay, delay the internal publication of our little projects until the new
tools arrive. Woohoo!

Meanwhile, the IT Security policy document forbids the enabling of Java and
Activex controls on company assets (like my desktop PC...), but when I
raised an IT trouble ticket yesterday, I got back an automated e-mail
directing me to an in-house web location to track the issue... and it
demanded that I enable Activex.

Uh huh.

Kevin (who might as well laugh as cry)

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