Howard Wilkinson wrote:
We have an environment where we hold the RFC2307 attributes within our AD, this is based on a Windows 2003 R2 AD.

We have established a sync agreement with our first FDS installation and would like to get the additional attributes synchronised into the FDS from AD. How and where do we add such facilities?
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OK I have found out where this done! There is a piece of 'C' in the server - 'ldap/servers/plugins/replication/windows_protocol_util.c' which contains hard wired lists of attributes that can be synchronised. Not what I had hoped for!

Is this the place to discuss extensions to the system? If so I would like to propose that a mechanism be developed that would allow additional schema entries to be mapped - ideally I would like to add 'userPrincipalName', the RFC2307 attributes (and possibly the SFU extensions) as well as some of the exchange fields e.g. the proxyAddresses entries. What I have in mind is a facility whereby the sync agreement can have mapping tables added (using the same sets of rules that are currently supported plus the ability to call out to an external function to map single attributes - we will leave more complex things to Meta-directories e.g. combining attributes) the tables being driven from new objects held in the FDS.

Note sure how hard this is going to be to do - and I would need my hand holding over where and how to make the changes - but I would be willing to give this a go if we can agree a spec.

Anybody interested?

In the meantime I will implement an external sync process that uses our meta-directory platform. .... Ho Humm!


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Howard Wilkinson

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Coherent Technology Limited

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23 Northampton Square,

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howard@cohtech.com