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Installation and Upgrades / Multiple Active Directory Zentyal Slaves

« on: February 28, 2012, 01:20:57 am »

Good Day All

First off a big big thank you for a wonderful product - especially the solution that a combination of Zentyal/Zarafa and Active Directory provides for many of my customers who are no longer willing to fork out for the expense of Active directory/exchange. This solution provides practically everything most exchange users need, including connecting mobile devices(android/blackberry etc) with very little effort on my part. Sync with Active Directory on both server 2003 and 2008 works pretty much flawlessly for me.

Most of my customers are small and they can get buy with one physical server for all zentyal roles, but one specific customer requires isolated server roles for security reasons. What im saying is: totally isolated instances of zentyal mail, file sharing, astarisk, web server and so on. My immediate solution is proxmox with OpenVz containers for each separate process - no KVM available here - older hardware with no virtualization support. But now active directory user/group sync for all zentyal processes(openvz containers) what would the official zentyal way be of doing this, if it is possible? Configure one zentyal container, say "mail" as active directory slave, and all other containers as zentyal LDAP slaves syncing to active directory slave?

Any input and assistance will be greatly appreciated

Craig...

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Installation and Upgrades / change standalone zentyal server to sync with active directory

« on: March 12, 2011, 10:49:36 am »

Good day all..

Firstly thank you for a wonderful product. Coming from a Windows background, the stability and feature set of zentyal still amazes me!

I have been using your product since ebox 0.9 days, and have deployed at least 20 servers for clients of up to 20 workstations most are conversions from windows server. I've been a long term lurker on these forums, and this is my first post, so go easy on me please!

I have a client with a zentyal office server, no gateway functionality. Server is fully updated, running latest zentyal release and configured as standalone. This company has now been forced to purchase active directory server to support certain software. They want to retain the zentyal server but want to sync it with AD. Is it possible to reconfigure the zentyal server to sync with the AD SERVER? if so how do I go about this, or should I reinstall and configure server as AD slave?

Any help you guys provide will be appreciated..

Craig

Ps.. I promise to stop lurking and start contributing soon!