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ADSI Adapter Requirements

If you are running the Application Object Manager on supported Microsoft Windows platforms, you must meet the requirements described here.

You must confirm that an ADSI client, supported by the Siebel ADSI adapter, is installed. If a supported client is not installed, then you must manually install one. Information about verifying this installation is provided below.

In order to allow users to set or change passwords, the ADSI client must be able to establish a secure connection to the Active Directory server. This requirement may be met in multiple ways: including all systems as part of a single Windows 2000 domain forest, configuring trust relationships, or configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It is also recommended to place all Siebel Servers and Active Directory servers in the same domain forest.

NOTE: To perform user management in the ADS directory through the Siebel client, it is strongly recommended that you configure ADS at the server level for SSL communications between the Active Directory client and server. This is different from SSL communications between the security adapter and the directory, which is configured through Siebel applications and is discussed in Secure Adapter Communications.

DNS servers on your network must be properly configured with DNS entries for the Active Directory server. Client machines using the ADSI security adapter must be configured to be able to retrieve these entries from the appropriate DNS servers.

For information about ADSI client versions supported by Siebel security adapters, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms for your Siebel application. See also the documentation for ADSI.

To confirm successful installation of a Siebel-supported ADSI client

Navigate to the system32 subdirectory of the installation location for the operating system (for example, C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT).

Verify that all of the DLLs for the supported ADSI clients listed in System Requirements and Supported Platforms for your Siebel application are present in the subdirectory.

For example, Windows 2000 requires the files adsiis.dll and adsiisex.dll.

For each DLL, right click on the file and choose Properties.

Click the Version tab to see the version number.