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I found this LDAP browser/editor to be really good! If you use this on a client and have write privileges be careful about not overwriting anything. Another cross platform browser suggested by Eric is LDAPSoft’s browser.

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I was at a client doing some Identity mapping. They have TIM Tivoli, which had to be mapped against their people soft data. I needed to pull their usernames (eruid), employeeIDs (eradEmployeeID) from objectclass eradaccount (AD stuff), I also had to get their email accounts (which are under a custom objectClass (did not come from AD originally). I was trying to write a VBScript to pull everything. But Unfortunately all the code that’s out there on the web is very AD specific (AD Provider, adspath etc) and was not able to properly run a query from a VBscript to hit LDAP.

So I emailed Charles Ahart a blogger who blogs about his Tivoli experiences. And I tell him about my problem. I mentioned I was trying to pull this data into SSIS to map against their PeopleSoft Employee ID. So VBScript or Vb.net code would work. I was also given access to their DB2 database. That thing is crazy I could connect from SSIS to it, but the data is just all over the place. While I needed just 3 attributes It was so difficult to track them down. Even the Client’s TIM dba couldn’t figure it out. So I thought if I can’t do this with a script, I will have to do it through running a query against the DB2. I think the script would be an easier route to take.

Charles Responded:
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