As to the first article, I'll take a look again to see if I missed any of the attributes set, thanks.
 
As to the 2nd article, I've read this many times.  The issue here is that the section, "Preparing for Active Directory" is essentially now deprecated(no longer supported) by Microsoft.  As mentioned in a few places:
 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/activedirectoryua/archive/2015/01/25/identity-management-for-unix-idmu-is-deprecated-in-windows-server.aspx
 
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303411.aspx  - "Subsystem for Unix-based Applications"  - deprecated.
 
I believe I've set these values in my configuration, but haven't seen any solutions as to replacements or workarounds.
 
 
Regards,
 
Sterling
 
------ Original Message ------
From: "Ashish Yadav" <gwalashish@gmail.com>
To: "Sterling Sahaydak" <sterling.sahaydak@pi-coral.com>; "End-user discussions about the System Security Services Daemon" <sssd-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: 4/9/2015 2:17:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SSSD-users] sssd - CentOS to Active Directory - no errmsg set and returning 0 results
 
Hi,

I think you should follow below given link first and then start thinking what steps you have missed in your set up and correct them. 

<https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Configuring%20sssd%20to%20authenticate%20with%20a%20Windows%202008%20Domain%20Server>
<http://www.chriscowley.me.uk/blog/2013/12/16/integrating-rhel-with-active-directory/>


--Regards
Ashishkumar S. Yadav