Many institutions have deployed Microsoft's Active Directory Domain Services ("AD") as an integral part of their identity management systems. As these institutions prepare to submit applications to the Assurance Program, particularly for the Silver assurance profile, a number of issues come to fore. This Cookbook attempts to assist these institutions by providing guidance for the configuration and deployment of AD in a manner compliant with InCommon Silver.
The Cookbook was originally released in 2012, and then revised in 2014 in response to a revision to the InCommon Assurance Profile for Silver.
2014
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Update
In March 2013, InCommon kicked off initiated a community review of the InCommon Silver with Active Directory Cookbook in light of the revised spec ( 1.2 ). For information on the working group, click on AD Alternative Means - 2013.
Open Comment Period
The working group has released a Release Candidate draft and is asking for feedback from the Community during the period of January 15 to 29, 2013. If you have comment to submit, please send it to the Assurance Program list at assurance@incommon.edu or add it to the Community Comments on RC 20140115 below.
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revision to the InCommon Assurance Profile (IAP). This group completed its work in April 2014 with the release of:
- InCommon Silver with Active Directory Domain Services Cookbook - DRAFT 20131002201404Community Comments on 20131002 DRAFT
- Public Comments and Responses for the 1/15/2014 Release Candidate
- Overview Webinar with Eric Goodman and David Walker from May 7, 2014.
2012 Release (deprecated)
A number of InCommon participant institutions have been preparing to submit applications to the assurance program to allow them to assert InCommon Silver level of assurance. A subset of this group has been working for almost a year on a draft “cookbook” to help those who have Microsoft’s Active Directory Domain Services (commonly referred to as “Active Directory” or “AD”) deployed, be able to configure it for compliance with the technical requirements of InCommon Silver.
- InCommon Silver with Active Directory Cookbook (published 2012)
- AD Silver Cookbook - Public Comments on Jan 2012 Draft
- For more information, you can review the minutes of our past calls: InCommon Silver with Active Directory Meeting Notes
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