Softerra LDAP Administrator 2011.2 - Release Notes

Table of Contents What's New? System Requirements Download and Installation Feedbacks on Quality Known Issues Frequently Asked Questions

Softerra LDAP Administrator is the industry-leading software product for browsingand managing LDAP directories. It provides a wide variety of features essentialfor those involved in LDAP development, deployment and administration of directories.Most of these newly implemented functions are really unique and unprecedented -to date there is nothing to match their efficiency in the existing LDAP softwarepackages. The main goal pursued by the LDAP Administrator development team is todeliver a powerful, integrated yet easy-to-use tool capable of working with anyLDAP server.

What's New?

Softerra LDAP Administrator 2011.2 is a major update that introduces several newfeatures and improvements. Below are the highlights of the new major features andimportant changes in Softerra LDAP Administrator from the previous version , Softerra LDAP Administrator 2011.1.

  • Enhanced Schema-based method of entry creation
  • HTML View improvements:
    • Increased performance
    • Filtering groups and members
    • Group membership management
    • Configuring terminal services settings
    • Logon hours editor
    • Set photo
  • Enhanced matching of credentials for referrals
  • Filtering for LDAP attributes
  • IntelliSense filtering
  • Date/Time editor
  • Color labels for profile and group nodes
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System Requirements

Hardware

Although Softerra LDAP Administrator is well capable of working on lesser systems,for best results we recommend you install it on an at least 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz Pentiumor a faster processor PC with a high or true color display mode of 800x600 pixelsor greater.

Software

Softerra LDAP Administrator has successfully passed thorough testing on the following platforms:

  • Windows XP SP3
  • Windows XP x64 SP2
  • Windows 2003 SP2
  • Windows 2003 x64 SP2
  • Windows Vista SP2 (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2

The following software is also required and important for installation and properfunctioning of Softerra LDAP Administrator:

Starting from Softerra LDAP Administrator 2010.2, we do not support Windows 2000.

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Download and Installation

Before installing the product, please make sure that your computer meets the system requirements . If one of the required components is missing on yoursystem, you will get an installation error.

The Softerra LDAP Administrator 2011.2 is provided for 32-bit and 64-bit systemsin two languages - English and German. You can get an appropriate installation packagefor free trial download at Softerra's download site .

To install the application, launch the downloaded installation package and followthe Installation Wizard hints.

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Feedbacks on Quality

To report a suggestion, bug or problem issue, please use the build-in program functionality(contained in the application Help menu).

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Known Issues

  • The Start/Stop TLS operation may not work with OpenLDAP server. To fix the issue,undate your system with latest Windows updates or consider applying a patch to the server.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Where are my profiles and settings stored? How can I copy them to another PC?

Profiles, credentails and other settings are stored in the metabase.stg file locatedin the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Softerra\LDAP Administrator 4 folder. This file isnot human readable, so it can't be read or manually edited. To copy your profilesfrom one workstation to another, use Load/Save Configuration dialog orjust copy the metabase.stg file to an appropriate folder of a destination PC.

I get 'ERROR 4: Sizelimit Exceeded' error. What's wrong and what can I do?

If you have a full-featured license, such a behavior may occur due to either ofthe two possible reasons, or both:

  • Profile settings: The Softerra LDAP Administrator profile you have created for theserver has settings, which are responsible for the request timeout and the searchresult size limit. Those restrictions are sent to the server with each request andif the size limit is less than the number of subentries in a certain entry, theapplication won't be able to get all of them.
  • LDAP Server settings: An LDAP server can be configured to return a certain numberof entries that is not greater than the one defined. This can be done by modifyingthe server configuration files or the source code prior to compilation. In mostcases such a configuration is made in order to optimize server load and preventhacker attacks.

To workarond the issue please use one of the following:

  • VLV or Simple Paging. Softerra LDAP Administrator supports Simple Paging and VirtualList View controls. Their respective use is only limited to whether your serversupports this kind of operations. To learn more on the above, please consult theapplication Help: Help->LDAP Administrator Help->Browsing Directory->Managing LargeAmounts of Entries .
  • Profile settings. To edit a server property, select a server item in the left-handside tree view panel and click the Properties button on the toolbar or press Alt-Enter .Then select the LDAP Settings tab, where the Entry count limit input willbe displayed. Enter a new value better meeting your requirements. A Zero for thisparameter means that the server is asked to return all the entries found in processof search.
  • LDAP Server settings. There isn't a universal way of solving this problem, for itdepends on a number of reasons: what kind of server you are working with, whom theserver belongs to, whether or not you enjoy administrator rights and physical accessto the server. If your server is absent in the list of solutions recommended forwell-known servers, we suggest you ask your system administrator or consult theserver documentation.

I can't connect to my server via a secure (SSL) connection. What's wrong? What canI handle that?

SSL is a tough issue, which requires certain knowledge to be able to perform necessaryactions on the server side in order to install SSL support. If you aren't familiarwith X.509 and SSL in particular, you expose yourself to a high risk of making amistake while issuing a server certificate or adjusting your server configuration,which will make it impossible to connect to the server. Our experience shows thatin 99% of cases, SSL problems occur due to the server-side issues. To troubleshootyour SSL issues, try running your server or SCHANNEL API (an SSL implementation used by Softerra LDAPAdministrator) in the debug mode.

Is there a command-line client? How can I schedule export of my LDAP server data?

There is a command-line tool that comes with Softerra LDAP Administrator package.It's called laimex.exe that is localed in the same folder where SofterraLDAP Administrator is installed. Command line options for laimex.exe aredescribed in the Softerra LDAP Administrator Help. laimex.exe can be usedtogether with Windows scheduler to perfrom export/import LDAP data operations automatically.

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