UNIX Interop in Vista Beta 2 and Longhorn Server

jcannon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:06:00 GMT

Another guest blog this week from Identity Management Program Manager, Shamit Patel:
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Hi,
Last week, we released two new utilities to help customers achieve UNIX / Windows Interop. The first is a set of utilities and the SDK for the Subsystem for UNIX Architecture (SUA) in Vista Beta 2 & Longhorn. For those unaware, SUA is a native subsystem residing on top of the Windows kernel, just like the Win32 subsystem. It provides the basic infrastructure to run UNIX-based applications and scripts on Windows Vista (Ultimate and Enterprise) and Longhorn Server.

We've also released the UNIX-side components for Identity Management with UNIX. This essentially provides the utilities which enable password sync between Windows and UNIX environments. These are the UNIX-based utilities to enable successful synchronization.

I realize many of you may not be testing Vista or Longhorn, but for those who are, or have corporate testing, we would love to hear your feedback on the product, scripts and documentation.

View full post on Longhorn Server Identity Management for UNIX components and Vista Beta 2/Longhorn Utilities and SDK for UNIX Subsystem.
Download Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Microsoft Windows Vista / Longhorn Server Beta 2.
Download UNIX Side Components for Identity Management for UNIX – Shipped with Windows Server codenamed Longhorn Server Beta 2.

Thanks all,
Shamit

Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released

admin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:23:00 GMT

We've got a quick guest blog before the holiday weekend on a new set of interoperability tools released this week by Microsoft, and in conjunction with some very talented folks in our partner, sales & services group. Welcome Luis Camara Manoel, Program Manager for in Communications & Collaboration...take it away Luis:

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(Luis Camara Manoel)

Hi all,
The Interoperability and Migration Solutions team at Microsoft is very happy to have just released the Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide. This guide details step-by-step instructions for providing security and directory services for mixed Windows and UNIX environments using Active Directory. The approach we followed here describes multiple options to achieve two different system end-states:

1. UNIX clients are enabled to use Windows Active Directory Kerberos for authentication while continuing to use a UNIX-based store for authorization.

2. UNIX clients are enabled to use Windows Active Directory Kerberos for authentication and use Active Directory LDAP for authorization.

We have also added some tools and templates to help plan, develop, deploy, and operate these solutions.

Although this release addresses AD integration only for Solaris 9 and for RedHat 9, it is pretty simple to see how it would apply to other UNIX and UNIX-like systems.

You can download the guide at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5118169 and please let me know what you think. I am very interested in finding out how the guidance is received.

Have a great holiday weekend,
-Luis

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UNIX Interop in Vista Beta 2 and Longhorn Server

Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released