Fine-grained password policies don’t have their own Microsoft-supplied management tool yet, so in the meantime I came across this nifty one from Specops: http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specops-password-policy It’s free, and it works! (Hopefully also on 2008R2) Update: It works beautifully in Windows Server 2008 R2
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Novell-to-AD sync via Powershell
I just found that copying user memberships from Novell NDS to Active Directory is simpler than I feared. I ended up using NetCmdlets (free trial) to do ldap calls to NDS. It failed at first, but once i tried hooking onto NDS WITHOUT authentication it worked like a charm. For AD comms, I use the
