!!! Overview !! The Hard Parts Often the hard part of connecting to AD using LDAP is [Determining the FDN] of the user to login with. !! How Active Directory Uses LDAP Some "jumbled" links to information on how AD works and why [LDAP] is important. * The [DC Locator Process in W2K, W2K3(R2) and W2K8] !! [Common Active Directory Bind Errors] These are some of the [Common Active Directory Bind Errors]. !! [LDAPs and AD] Some information on [LDAPs and AD] on how to setup the certificates. !! [LDAP policy in Active Directory] [LDAP policies|LDAP policy in Active Directory] are implemented by using objects of the queryPolicy class. Query Policy objects can be created in the Query Policies container, which is a child of the Directory Service container in the configuration naming context. For example: cn=Query-Policies, cn=Directory Service, cn=Windows NT, cn=Services configuration naming context. !! [How to configure 2000 Active Directory to allow anonymous queries|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320528] !! [MAD Naming Attributes] !! [LDAP Query Examples for AD] ! [Microsoft Management Console] There is often difficulty in translating what is seen in the [Microsoft Management Console] to LDAP Attribute names. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]