What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Microsoft Active Directory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Microsoft Active Directory in release 9.0.2 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

Software Updates

These include updates made to the connector software.
Documentation-Specific Updates

These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

This section discusses the following software updates implemented in this release of the connector.

Incorporation of Multilanguage Support

In addition to English, this release of the connector supports the French and Japanese languages. The following are documentation updates pertaining to the incorporation of this feature:

The installation media directory includes resource bundle files for the languages supported by the connector. These resource bundle files are described in the "Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector" section.

Some other changes have also been made in this section.
The "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section specifies the destination directory into which you must copy the resource bundle files during the deployment procedure.
The "Step 4: Configuring the Oracle Identity Manager Server" section describes the procedure to change to the required input locale and to clear content related to connector resource bundles from the server cache.
Two new IT resource parameters have been added to carry country code and language code information to the target system. These parameters are described in the "Defining IT Resources" section.
Chapter 4, "Known Issues" discusses two new issues related to the use of non-English locales.

Determining the Release Number of the Connector

Instructions to determine the release number of the connector are given in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section.

Changes in the Known Issues List

The following issues have been added to the Known Issues list in Chapter 4:

An issue pertaining to the entry of mandatory user field values.
An error may be thrown during the password change operation on a Microsoft Windows 2003 server on which service pack 1 has not been installed.
You can provision an organization through Oracle Identity Manager on Microsoft Active Directory. However, you cannot change the name this organization through Oracle Identity Manager.

Changes in Supported Functionality

The Change Organization Name function has been removed from the "Supported Functionality" section.

Changes Related to the User's Name Attribute in Microsoft Active Directory

The following changes have been made in the display and storage of the user's name:

The display name for a user shows the first name, middle name, and last name.
After provisioning, in addition to the first name and last name, the middle name initials are displayed.
In the Japanese locale, the display name for a user shows the last name first, followed by the middle name, and then the first name.
The name that you provide as the logon name is used as the account name. The account name is not dependent on the first name or full name.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

Oracle Identity Manager uses a Microsoft Active Directory user account to connect to and exchange data with Microsoft Active Directory. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
In the "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section:
- Changes have been made in the destination directory specified for some of the files.
- Instructions to change the values specified in the install.bat (and install.sh) file so that they match the Oracle Identity Manager operating environment parameters have been added.
In the following sections, instructions to copy the connector JAR files and adapter files to all the nodes of a clustered environment have been added:
In the "Importing the Microsoft Active Directory Certificate" section, instructions to perform the procedure on all the nodes of a cluster have been added.
In the "Step 5: Importing the Connector XML Files" section, the XliActiveDirectoryScheduleTask_DM.xml file has been added to the list of XML files to be imported. The fact that importing this XML file results in the creation of reconciliation scheduled tasks has been mentioned in the "Step 6: Configuring Reconciliation" section.
Detailed instructions on configuring reconciliation have been moved from Appendix A to the "Step 6: Configuring Reconciliation" section. The revised Appendix A describes only the attributes of the reconciliation scheduled task.

In addition, the acceptable values of some of the reconciliation scheduled task attributes have been changed from Yes and No to True and False.
Instructions and pointers to information about configuring trusted source reconciliation have been moved to the "Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation" section.
In the "Lookup Fields Reconciliation Scheduled Task" section, the default value of the LookupCodeName attribute is Lookup.ADReconliation.GroupLookup. In this default value, the word "reconciliation" has been misspelled. This will be fixed in the next release.
Instructions to enable reconciliation in Oracle Identity Manager release 9.0.1 have been added in the "Enabling Reconciliation in Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1" section.
While performing the procedure described in the "Installing Certificate Services" section, you must first insert the operating system installation media into the CD-ROM or DVD drive. This step has been added at the start of the procedure.
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of Microsoft Active Directory are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" section.