Active Directory, for reasons best known to itself, stores many boolean attributes (such as userAccountControl or msExchELCMailboxFlags) together in an aggregate integer rather than separating them … Read more
Summary An issue has been discovered in the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACLs) over Network File System (NFS) on the infrastructure now supporting the … Read more
I understand that our way of getting users signed into Office365 via Shibboleth is considered a little… scary. In the interest of transparency and community … Read more
Office365 now exposes a number of reports which will hopefully be useful for measuring usage and engagement of mailbox users. One such report is the … Read more
A few days ago we noticed that our Oracle (née Sun, née iPlanet, née Netscape…) Directory Server Connector for FIM (née Management Agent [MA]) was, … Read more
Some notes on generating Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) with Subject Alternate Names (SANs) using JANET’s certificate service (https://certificates.ja.net/jcs/) CSR generation Create csr.dat as: [ req … Read more
I’ve been trying to work out how to alter the coredump limits for a running processes (well, batch of processes, really) without needing GDB and … Read more
Following a few questions around how and why we’ve set up our SAML2 (Shibboleth and other) infrastructure I thought I’d write a proper post about … Read more
Something I forgot to mention in my earlier post about getting Shibboleth working with Office365 was our need to tweak the config a bit beyond … Read more
A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation at Networkshop41 about our experience of using Office365 with Shibboleth instead of ADFS. I’ve finally got … Read more