UAB Windows 2000 Active Directory Project

NMI Workshop8 April 2003

Dave Green (dgreen@uab.edu)UAB Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dept.

UAB Middleware Infrastructure

Goals Common Windows 2000 Active

Directory Populated by automation from central

official sources where practical Common Exchange 2000 Architecture

Unify mail clouds to reduce “surprises” Careful mixture of central and local

(departmental) services and control

AD Architecture

ad.uab.edu Domain

OU DL

Control

Blazer Dir. -> Active Dir. (near) Real-time actions

Account activations Password changes and resets E-mail routing information Mailbox creation

Daily Updates “Phonebook” information Deletions

Pre-deletion notification

Pre-Deletion Notification Blazer Directory (authoritative)

entries live on Active Directory

accounts/mailboxes must be removed due to cost upon end of active affiliation Students (1 year after last class) Faculty/Staff (3 months) Pre-deletion notification

Status (Items completed) Study/Design Phase Test lab phase Pre-production testing Production AD Deployment

(full UAB population) “Dogfood” Exchange Usage Roll Out to 1/5 University

(migration, new users)

LinksBlazerID Resource:

http://www.uab.edu/blazeridAD Project:

http://www.uab.edu/it/w2ke2k/