Softerra LDAP Administrator 2010.1 - Release Notes

What's New?

Softerra LDAP Administrator 2010.1 is a major update that introduces several new features and improvements. Below are the highlights of the new major features and important changes in Softerra LDAP Administrator from the previous version, Softerra LDAP Administrator 2009.2.

• Directory Reports, the main feature introduced in this release, facilitate LDAP directory analysis and monitoring and provide users with essential information about directory infrastructure and objects.
• SASL EXTERNAL authentication support, which allows a client to authenticate itself to a directory server using a client SSL certificate instead of login/password credential.
• Active Directory specific search options support.
• ntSecurityDescriptor attribute editor. It allows viewing and editing Active Directory objects security information.
• Fetching attribute values with the 'range=x-y' option.
• objectClass attribute highlighting.
• Name Forms schema in the Entry Creation wizard.
• Regular expressions in the LDIF Editor Find/Replace dialog.
• Several user interface improvements.
• Windows 7 and 2008 R2 support.

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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 Pentium or a faster processor PC with a high or true color display mode of 800x600 pixels or greater.

Software

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

• Windows 2000 SP4
• 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 (x86, x64)

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

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
• Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or higher

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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 your system, you will get an installation error.

The Softerra LDAP Administrator 2010.1 is provided for 32-bit and 64-bit systems in two languages - English and German. You can get an appropriate installation package or bootstrapper executabe for free trial download at Softerra's download site.

To install the application, launch the downloaded installation package and follow the 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) or visit the Softerra LDAP Administrator forum.

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Known Issues

• The Start/Stop TLS button is always disabled under Windows 2000.
• The SASL authentication does not work under Windows 2000.
• 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 located in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Softerra\LDAP Administrator 4 folder. This file is not human readable, so it can't be read or manually edited. To copy your profiles from one workstation to another, use Load/Save Configuration dialog or just 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 of the two possible reasons, or both:

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

To workarond the issue please use one of the following:

• VLV or Simple Paging. Softerra LDAP Administrator supports Simple Paging and Virtual List View controls. Their respective use is only limited to whether your server supports this kind of operations. To learn more on the above, please consult the application Help: Help->LDAP Administrator Help->Browsing Directory->Managing Large Amounts of Entries.
• Profile settings. To edit a server property, select a server item in the left-hand side 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 will be displayed. Enter a new value better meeting your requirements. A Zero for this parameter means that the server is asked to return all the entries found in process of search.
• LDAP Server settings. There isn't a universal way of solving this problem, for it depends on a number of reasons: what kind of server you are working with, whom the server belongs to, whether or not you enjoy administrator rights and physical access to the server. If your server is absent in the list of solutions recommended for well-known servers, we suggest you ask your system administrator or consult the server documentation.

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

SSL is a tough issue, which requires certain knowledge to be able to perform necessary actions on the server side in order to install SSL support. If you aren't familiar with X.509 and SSL in particular, you expose yourself to a high risk of making a mistake while issuing a server certificate or adjusting your server configuration, which will make it impossible to connect to the server. Our experience shows that in 99% of cases, SSL problems occur due to the server-side issues. To troubleshoot your SSL issues, try running your server or SCHANNEL API (an SSL implementation used by Softerra LDAP Administrator) 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 Softerra LDAP Administrator is installed. Command line options for laimex.exe are described in the Softerra LDAP Administrator Help. laimex.exe can be used together with Windows scheduler to perfrom export/import LDAP data operations automatically.

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