1. UAB Windows 2000 Active Directory Project NMI Workshop 8 April 2003 Dave Green (dgreen@uab.edu)dgreen@uab.edu UAB Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.

2. UAB Middleware Infrastructure

3. 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

4. AD Architecture

5. ad.uab.edu Domain OU DL

6. Control

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. Links BlazerID Resource: http://www.uab.edu/blazerid AD Project: http://www.uab.edu/it/w2ke2k/