WingnutKid

Hi folks, Just wondering if anyone has tried getting SMHW logins synchronising with AD? Apparently only two schools in the country have managed to get this working, ours NOT being one of them! This is a feature that SMHW provide but it seems that they don't really know how to get it set up! If you are one of the two schools that have managed to do this, please let me know

Ok, I can't actually believe that I'm entertaining this idea, but I'm considering building a core installation 2012 R2 Standard server with read only AD and giving that the public IP. The server will be protected by its own firewall, the Grid's firewall and Symantec AV. I think this is as much as I can do to minimise the risk.

Just upgraded to Solus 3.7. Seems to be better than earlier versions of Solus 3.

I've recently had our SIMS server rebuilt using Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL 2012. It's a physical server, but my disaster recovery solution is predominantly virtual, so I decided to test a restore of my new SIMS server onto my disaster recovery solution as virtual server. Appears to work fine!

Wow, thanks for your responses so far. I have expressed my reluctance to the service provider and the response was: Your AD server should be accessible to us through a specific port on a public IP address. To avoid security issues we recommend the following : - limit access to that port and IP address to the specific list of IP addresses we have provided you through your firewall configuration - ensure that the user you provide us with has only read rights to the AD server - ensure that you have SSL mode on so that any traffic between our servers is encrypted I'm still not convinced. Your thoughts? Cheers.

Hi folks, I have signed up to a web service which has it's own authentication system but is moving over to AD authentication. I would like to move my school over to the AD authentication, but the service provider isn't using Federation Services, and is instead suggesting that one of my AD servers should have a public IP address so that they can use LDAP to read authentication data. Is this normal? I've never even considered giving one of my AD servers a public IP address, as the security implications slightly scare me. Some feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

Hi all, hoping someone might help me with a rather annoying problem. I am in the process of up-grading my workstations to Windows 7 x 64. I am able to install the Altiris client and TightVNC client and I am able to see whether stations are on in Altiris and in LanView. However, neither system shows me when a user is logged on to a workstation; also I am not able to remote control the workstations using Altiris or LanView. I am able to do this on workstations installed with Windows 7 x 32, however I can only remote control if someone is logged on to the workstation. Has anyone else come across this issue and been able to resolve it? Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers