What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Microsoft Windows 2000?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Microsoft Windows 2000 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.
The "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files" section provides 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.
Chapter 3, "Known Issues" discusses a new issue 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.

Functionality Modified to Use AD User objectGUID Instead of USN

In this release of the connector, the AD User objectGUID is used instead of the USN.

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

Instructions to copy the connector JAR files and adapter files to all the nodes of a clustered environment have been added in the following sections:
Oracle Identity Manager uses a Microsoft Windows 2000 user account to connect to and exchange data with Microsoft Windows 2000. The "Step 6: Compiling Adapters" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of Microsoft Windows 2000 are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" section.
Appendix A provides information about attribute mappings between Oracle Identity Manager and Microsoft Windows 2000.