Release Notes

 

 

IBM® Security

Active Directory 64-Bit Adapter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Version 6.1.37

 

Edition notice

 

Note:  This edition applies to versions 6.0 the IBM Security Identity Manager.

 

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2009, 2019

US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

 

 


Contents

Preface. 1

Adapter Features and Purpose. 1

Service Groups Management 1

Contents of this Release. 1

Adapter Version. 1

New Features. 1

Closed Issues. 1

Known Issues. 1

Installation and Configuration Notes. 1

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features. 1

Support for Customized Adapters. 1

Troubleshooting. 1

Installation Platform.. 1

Notices. 1

Trademarks. 1


Preface

Welcome to the IBM Security Active Directory 64-bit (WinAD64) Adapter.

 

These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Security Identity Manager manuals were printed:

 

 

 

Adapter Features and Purpose

The Active Directory Adapter is designed to create and manage accounts on Microsoft Active Directory and mailboxes on Exchange and Lync (Skype for Business). The adapter runs in “agentless" mode and communicates using Microsoft ADSI API and PowerShell (for exchange communication) to the systems being managed.

 

IBM recommends the installation of this adapter in “agentless" mode on a 64-bit OS and computer in the domain being managed. Installation on a Domain Controller is not recommended. A single copy of the adapter can handle multiple Identity Manager Services. The deployment configuration is based, in part, on the topology of your network domain, but the primary factor is the planned structure of your Identity Manager Provisioning Policies and Approval Workflow process. Please refer to the Identity Manager Information Center for a discussion of these topics.

 

The IBM Security adapters are powerful tools that require Administrator Level authority. Adapters operate much like a human system administrator, creating accounts, permissions and home directories. Operations requested from the Identity Manager server will fail if the adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. IBM recommends that this adapter run with administrative (root) permissions.

Service Groups Management

The ability to manage service groups is a feature introduced prior to IBM Security Identity Manager 6.0.  By service groups, ISIM is referring to any logical entity that can group accounts together on the managed resource.

 

Managing service groups implies the following:

 

            Create service groups on the managed resource.

            Modify attribute of a service group.

            Delete a service group.

 

            Note that service group name change is not supported in ISIM 6.0 release.

           

The Windows Active Directory x64 adapter supports service groups management.


Contents of this Release

Adapter Version

Component

Version

Build Date

2020 June 05 18.16.19

Adapter Version

6.1.37

Component Versions

Adapter Build:  6.1.37

Profile 6.1.37

ADK 7.0.6

 

Documentation

Check the IBM Knowledge Centre for the following guide(s):

IBM Security Active Directory Adapter with 64-Bit Support Installation and Configuration Guide

 


New Features

Enhancement # (FITS)

Description

 

Items included in this release (6.1.34)

RFE TS001318020 (55491)

IGI Active Directory Adapter - EmployeeNumber not supported

RFE TS001619165 (58739)

AD Adapter does not change Country to AD Country Code

RFE TS002747046 (59959)

Management of the attribute 'msExchAddressBookPolicyLink' by ISIM Windows AD Adapter

 

Internal

Updated to ADK 7.0.8 with openSSL 1.1.1d.  Added support for min tls level

 

 

Items included in this release (6.1.33)

RFE 127449 (56512)

Supporting eradeallowedaddresslist in hybrid environment (Adapter)

 

RFE 128222 (56765)

ISIM and O365 email usage in hybrid environment

 

 

Items included in this release (6.1.32)

RFE 130064 (57543)

'businessCategory' attribute in Security Identity Adapter for Windows AD not handled as multi-valued.

 

181168

Attribute values lookup support.

 

183288

Support for Windows 2019 server.  Both as a managed service and adapter platform.  Support for Exchange 2019 and Skype for Business 2019.

 

PSIRT

Upgraded to ADK 7.0.6 with OpenSSL 1.0.2r

 

 

Items included in this release (6.1.31)

 

None

 

Items included in 6.1.30 release

177537

As a developer of the Windows AD adapter, I need to use a newer OpenSSL version that addresses PSIRT advisories.

OpenSSL is upgraded from version 1.0.2n to 1.0.2p

178202

Implementation for supporting recon for:                                                            msDS-LastSuccessfulInteractiveLogonTime and other 3 related attributes.

New attributes supported:

- msDS-LastSuccessfulInteractiveLogonTime,
- msDS-FailedInteractiveLogonCount,
- msDS-FailedInteractiveLogonCountAtLastSuccessfulLogon,
- msDS-LastFailedInteractiveLogonTime

 

 

Items included in 6.1.29 release

154239

US - As a Windows AD adapter developer, I need to update my adapter to use the newer OpenSSL

 

Items included in 6.1.28 release

 

None

 

Items included in 6.1.27 release

50831

50763

Windows AD adapter to support mailbox attribute msExchRecipientTypeDetails and msExchRemoteRecipientType in integer8 format

 

50988

Add businessCategory as a regular adapter attribute

 

43334

Enhance AD Adapter to detect user's email status for remote mailbox (O365) and manage proxy address and other exchange attrib

 

internal

Added support for remote mailbox to support Office 365 mailboxes in a hybrid Exchange environment

 

internal

Modified installer to default to SSL enabled

 

 

 

Items included in 6.1.26 release

44871

Added support for lync Mobility and Persistent Chat policies

 

internal

Now supports FIPS compliant mode

 

 

 

Items included in 6.1.25 release

internal

This release includes ADK 7.0.3 which update openssl to 1.0.2f to address a vulnerability to excessive CPU utilization

 

 

 

Items included in 6.1.24 release

internal

This release officially supports Windows 2016 server.  Both as a managed resource and an installation platform

 

 

 

Items included in 6.1.23 release

internal

Now using ADK 7.0.1 with updated openSSL, ICU and SQLite all built on Visual Studio 2012.  Adapter is now built on Visual Studio 2012 using .NET 4.5.  It no longer requires .NET 3.5 to be installed.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.20 release

42641

 Adapter Support for Exchange 2016 and Lync 2015  

 

42071 

Second and following Mailbox Move Requests Fail on Exchange 2013

 

43225 

Reduce IO in WinAD Adapter for PW change

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.18 release

38935

Support "Manager can update membership list" attribute for AD Group

                                 

38934

Support display name attribute for AD Groups

                                 

39511

WinAD Adapter does not reconcile Lync Registry Pools from AD

                                 

40129

ISIM AD Adapter Customization for Group Object class
                                 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.16 release

30303

ISIM AD adpater unable to set Mail box Retention policy check

                                 

internal

Now using ADK 6.0.1027 which provides an option disabling sslv3.  There is also support for setting the list of ciphers used.

 

internal

The Domain Admin and Domain Password fields have been removed from the service form in the profile.  They can still be used, but the preferred method is to set the logon account on the adapter windows service.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.15 release

34001

Added support for Exchange Automatic Mailbox Distribution.  Supplying only eradealias without a mail store or external email address allows Exchange to determine the mail store to use based on load balancing.

                                 

31924

Prevent deletion of user accounts that have a mailbox that is under litigation hold

                                 

32482

Add support for msExchCoManagedByLink to group schema

                                 

29995

Add support for msExchRequireAuthToSendTo to group schema

                                 

 

Updated logging to include output from Lync and Exchange modules

                                 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.14 release

 

The Password Synchronization plug-in is now released as a separate package.  It is no longer bundled in with the AD Adapter

                                 

 

Includes updated ADK 6.0.1020 which includes update to prevent password values from being written to the log on password change failures.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.13 release

 

Includes updated ADK 6.0.1019 which includes version 1.0.1h-fips of openSSL.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.12 release

 

Added support to allow specifying a list of preferred Exchange and Lync servers.  The adapter will attempt to connect to one of the preferred servers first before searching AD for all servers.  An additional attribute is also provided to force the adapter to only use the preferred servers.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.11 release

 

This release requires an updated C++ runtime.  You MUST do a FULL install for this release.  An update install does not install the C++ runtime.

 

 

Includes updated ADK 6.0.1018 which includes an update to version 1.0.1e-fips of openSSL.  This openSSL was built with the OPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS option and does not contain the Heartbleed vulnerability.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.8 release

 

Added support for disabling slow Lync attributes on recon using registry value “LyncDisableSearch

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.7 release

 

Added support for Lync 2013

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.6 release

17036, 17099, 25906, 27911, 31577

Added support for Lync 2010

 

See “Error! Reference source not found.” section for additional adapter configuration

 

 

Items included in 6.0.4 release

 

30820, 27083, 33740

 

Added support for Windows 2012 Server

 

34372

 

Added support for Exchange 2013

 

 

Items included in 6.0.3 release

 

27906

 

Added support for MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp

 

15453

 

Added support for msExchOWAPolicy

 

29346, 28979, 26825, 22462

 

Added support for deleting account objects that have child nodes in AD

 

30515

Added support for managedBy attribute for managed group objects

 

19447

 

Added support for POP3 and IMAP4 protocol settings

 

N/A

 

Exchange interface updated to use remote PowerShell session with Exchange 2010 Server.  No longer requires local installation of Exchange 2010 Management tools.

 


Closed Issues

CMVC#

APAR#

PMR# / Description

 

 

 

Items closed in this release 6.1.37)

TS003631283

IJ24481

Windows AD - unable to remove erADLyncLineURI attribute from Lync/Skype server

 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release 6.1.36)

Internal

Fixed targetProfile.json which had been reverted to the old format by mistake

 

TS003631283

IJ24481

Windows AD - unable to remove erADLyncLineURI attribute from Lync/Skype server

 

TS003197913

Adding an Activedirectory account results in

SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE command (long DNs in container names)

 

TS003611746

IJ24480

Windows AD - recon not picking up erADLyncDialpPolicy (DialPlan) attribute for Lync/Skype

 

 

IJ24489

Group basepoint - Unable to bind to group basepoint

 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.35)

Internal

Null pointer when mailbox store is empty value on add request

 

TS003353720

Active Directory Adapter performance (1.5 second delay per request)

 

APAR IJ23159

           

A random server is chosen for group modify if no server is specified in the group base point

 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.34)

bTS00213742

duplicate erADEmailboxGUID entries returned resulting in warnings

 

TS002782868

Issue with updating proxyaddresses inExchange/Active directory

 

APAR IJ17835           

WINAD ADAPTER ERROR WHEN SETTING "ACCEPT MAIL FROM" AND THE ACCOUNT HAS A REMOTE MAILBOX

 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.33)

TS002562024

eradexdialin and erADEShowInAddrBook not working correctly due to errors in targetprofile.json 

 

Internal

erUID incorrectly marked as immutable preventing renaming user

.

Internal

erADERstrctAdrsLs, erADEAllowedAddressList, erADEDelegates incorrectly marked as not supported for remote mailboxes erADETargetAddress incorrectly marked as supported for remote mailboxes. 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.32)

183289

IJ12159

erADEHideFromAddrsBk not returned.  Behaving as designed, the value is not present when set to false through the ADSI api.

 

183292

 

businessCategory’ on containers now supported as multi-valued.

 

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.31)

TS002132224

 

ISIM AD Adapter looks for .v2 profile, for window 10 users it needs to be .v6.

Bugz 2900

 

 

 

Items closed in this release (6.1.31)

Internal

 

RTC 181198:

Internal - As a WinAD adapter, i must ensure that the profile jars in 7.x package are correct

 

 

Items closed in 6.1.30 release

TS001030655

 

US - As a WinAD adapter developer I must ensure that the correct version numbers are set for the 6.x and 7.x adapter builds.


Bugz 2647 - wrong version of ad adapter in log post install

 

 

                                       

Items closed in 6.1.29 release

 

 

None

 

 

Items closed in 6.1.28 release

TS000028936

 

 

Added support for providing primary SMTP address when mailbox is created.  This avoids, the default SMTP address from becoming a secondary SMTP address when the primary SMTP address is set after the mailbox is created.

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.1.27 release

 

01351,SGC,740

 

 

Error 0x00000037 and 0x80004005 trying to set eradnochangepassword

 

 

IV98275

WRONG SYNTAX FOR ERADPREFERREDEXCHANGESERVERS AND ERADPREFERREDLYNCSERVERS IN TARGETPROFILE.JSON

 

 

IV97886

IV98275

 ADprofile.jar file from 7.1.26 package won't import on IGI 5.2.3 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.1.25 release

 

 

IV85621 

WINAD ADAPTER: PASS PREFERRED LYNC SERVERS TO LYNC MODULE

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.1.23 release

 

 

IV85621 

 

CERTTOOL CRASHES WHEN TRYING TO IMPORT CERT

 

 

IV86639

 

RECONCILIATIONS DO NOT RETURN WINAD CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES, SPECIFICALLY GIDNUMBERT

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.22 release

 

 

IV84875

reopened

 

ISIM AD ADAPTER CANNOT MANAGE LYNC ATTRIBUTES

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.20 release

 

 

IV84875           

 

ISIM AD ADAPTER CANNOT MANAGE LYNC ATTRIBUTES

 

75802,227,000

 

           

 

Issue with erADGrpWriteMembers attribute value on reconcile returning both true and false.

 

 

04723,001,862

 

           

 

WinAD Adapter Release Notes Wrong+Missing Information

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.19 release

 

 

IV82951           

 

SETTING NTFS HOME DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS FAILS AFTER UPGRADE TO WINAD64 6.0.18

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.18 release

 

52479,004,000

 

           

 

ITIM adapter deleting the $IPC share accidentally

 

 

 

 

IV79632           

 

ACTIVE DIRECTORY USERS WITH COUNTRY CODE 428 ARE CREATED WITH COUNTRY LATIVA INSTEAD OF LATVIA.

 

 

 

IV79641

 

AD ADAPTER INTERMITTENTLY CRASHES DURING RECONCILIATION

 

 

 

IV81775           

 

INVALID PARAMETER GENERATED FOR EXCHANGE 2013 PROVISIONING (-ManagedFolderMailboxPolicyAllowed)

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.17 release

 

 

 

IV78917

 

ISSUES WHILE ENABLING LYNC FOR IDS WHICH HAVE SPECIAL 
CHARACTERS IN THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS.

 

 

 

IV78758

 

WINAD ADAPTER CRASHING WHILE CALLING GETLYNCUSER DURING RECONCILE

 

 

 

IV78492

 

AD ADAPTER CRASH IF PROXY ADDRESS IS NOT VALID.

 

 

 

IV78286

 

IADSTSUSEREX INTERFACE NOT WORKING TO RETRIEVE WTS ATTRIBUTES

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.16 release

 

 

 

IV73908

 

Event Notification no more working if USN-Changed attribute exceeds 7 digits

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.15 release

 

92067,69G,760

 

 

 

Test connection fails.  Test connection now only reports warning if the Domain/Forest functional level cannot be determined

 

06429,707,707

 

 

 

Change the default behavior for eradgroup to be add/delete rather than replace.

 

 

IV71005

 

LyncDisableSearch registry setting in wrong location after install

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.14 release

 

13541,035,724

 

 

 

WTS ATTRIBUTES AND RECON ERROR 1317.

 

 

 

IV65653

 

WINAD ADAPTER REPORTS SUCCESS IN CASE OF AD GROUP INTERFACE PROBLEMS DURING RECONCILIATION.

 

 

 

IV67715

 

 

ERADLYNCTELEPHONY AND ERADLYNCLINEURI FAIL ON MODIFY TO LYNC

 

38947,031,724

CVE-2014-8923

 

 

 

 

WinAD Adapter logs password in clear text on password change failures.  This addresses IBM Security Bulletin CVE-2014-8923

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.13 release

 

 

IV61397

 

THREAD LOGGING OPTION NOT SHOWING IN AD ADAPTER AGENTCFG PROGRAM

 

 

IV62916

 

AD ADAPTER RECON FAILS WHEN AD CANNOT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT AN ATTRIBUTE'S SCHEMA CHARACTERISTICS

 

 

IV63714

 

WINAD ADAPTER CRASH IF ERADLYNCTELEPHONY IS NULL

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.12 release

 

 

IV61264

 

ADD REQUESTS FAIL TO CREATE MAILBOXES ON EXCHANGE 2013 when EXCHANGE 2010 are present         

 

 

IV54076

 

ADAPTER 6.0.7 EVENT NOTIFICATION DOESN'T SEND UPDATES ON DELETE

44201,124,672

 

 

 

Lync updates fail to set attributes, but adapter returns “success”

40800,124,672

 

 

 

Disable the AD account, and is it expected to see the exchange 2010 account suspended as well?

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.9 release

 

 

IV55003

 

Only first value of extended multi-valued attribute provisioned

                  

 

 

IV54742

 

Failure when removing value from erAdAllowedaddresslist attribute

                  

 

 

IV53979

 

Win AD adapter log rotation is not working properly

                  

 

 

IV53709

 

Account modify problem with the execution policy machine policy set to remote signed,

                  

 

 

IV53423

 

Windows active directory adapter can crash during test connection

                         

 

 

IV45107

 

AD recon fails with large photo attribute

                  

 

 

IV55742

 

ReconDiscconectedMailbox setting breaking reconcile

                  

 

IV54738

THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE FORCE PASSWORD CHANGE ATTRIBUTE IS DOCUMENTED INCORRECTLY

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.8 release

 

 

IV53185, IV52869

IV52916

 

Unable to set extended string attribute 

                  

 

 

IV53212

 

 

.V2 profile folder not deleted on deprovision 

 

 

IV53225

 

 

AD add with Lync account fails with user not found 

                                    

 

 

70571,227,000

 

Test request is crashing 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.7 release

 

 

IV49178

 

Unable to update Accept Mail From attribute. 

 

42506,227,000

 

 

 

Random failure with eradnochangepassword attribute during add/create account request

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.6 release

 

 

IV46279

IV45884

 

User delete request reporting error “Unable to parse user DN” even though delete was successful

 

 

IV38015

Removed FIPs reference from installation guide

 

IV43794

On AD adapter Add operation secondary SMTP is ignored

 

IV44614

WinAD adapter has missing RPS documentation

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.4 release

 

 

IV43500

 

 

Proxy address handling updating to correctly support replacing primary smtp adress

 

 

IV39511

 

Restructured code to reorder DACLs when updating security descriptor to set erADNoChangePwd

 

 

IV36704

 

erADEActiveSyncEnabled value was not correct when returned during recon.  It is now correctly set.

 

 

IV31681

 

Additional enhancements to the handling of proxy addresses to properly handle setting primary smtp addresses

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.3 release

 

 

 

IV31681

 

Restructured handling of proxy address so the processing order is fixed – delete, add, replace.  With the exception that a new primary SMTP address must be added if the existing one is being deleted in the delete request.

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.2 release

 

 

 

IV31759

 

Fixed the installer to use registry import to register the Exchange interface DLL.  No longer calling RegAsm.exe at install time.

 

 

IV31747

 

Fixed error handling when Exchange Interface is not present while managing Exchange attributes.  Previously returning success, when interface is not present. 

 

 

IV25655

 

Fixed bug in lookup callback that returned success when binding to AD fails.

 


Known Issues

CMVC#

APAR#

PMR# / Description

N/A

N/A

 

Support for Exchange and Lync is provided using remote powershell connections to the Exchange or Lync server.  There is a fixed limit of 5 concurrent connections to a remote powershell.  Setting the thread count to higher than the default of 3 could result in some Exchange or Lync attributes failing to be set under heavy loads.

 

N/A

N/A

 

Support for erADEAllowedAddressList and erADERstrctAdrsLs is no longer available for Exchange 2007.

 

N/A

N/A

 

Service form fields:

 

  • Administration User Account
  • Administration User Password

 

See “Corrections to Installation Guide", “

The settings for Exchange Mailbox security for Read and Full access were using different values for settings in an attempt to have the default values on the form match those of Exchange.  This was confusing and causing issues when the default settings on the Exchange server were changed from what the adapter expected.  The adapter now uses the same values for all Exchange security settings.  1=Allow, 2=Deny and 0 or no value=None.

 

Chapter 4. Adapter installation" section below.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Class 3 Certificates

Class 3 secure server CA-G2 certs are not written properly to “DamlCACerts.pem" file through CertTool.exe Utility. The certificate data is written twice between BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE.

 

Work around: To correct this issue, please follow the below steps and edit “DamlCACerts.pem” file present in “<Adapter installation path>\data" folder.

 

Step 1. Start the CertTool utility

 

Step 2. Import the class 3 CA certificate by using “F" option from the main menu of CertTool Utility.

 

Step 3. Once the class 3 CA certificate is successfully installed, open “DamlCACerts.pem” file stored in the “<Adapter installed path>\data" folder using text editor.

 

Step 4. Delete the class 3 CA certificate data (i.e. content between BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE) from “DamlCACerts.pem".

 

Step 5. Open class 3 CA certificate file using text editor and copy the certificate data (between the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE)

 

Step 6. Paste the certificate data to “DamlCACerts.pem" file between the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE lines of same class 3 CA Certificate. If more than one class 3 certificates are installed then you can identify the certificate using issuer and subject data.

 

Step 7. Save “DamlCACerts.pem" file.

 

Step 8. To verify the “DamlCACerts.pem" file is edited properly, display certificate information by using option “E" from the main menu of CertTool Utility.

 

Please note that this issue is seen after installing class 3 CA certificate. If you correct the DamlCACerts.pem and then install another class 3 CA certificate, the newly installed class 3 CA certificate will show same issue.

 

This issue is also seen when you delete any certificate using option "G" from the main menu of CertTool utility. The delete option will affect all remaining class 3 CA certificate and you have to follow step 1 to 8 to correct the DamlCACerts.pem file.

 

 


Running in Federal Information Processing

Standards compliance mode

 

Security Identity Adapters can be operated with FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic modules. FIPS 140-2 is a standard from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that applies to cryptographic modules.

 

Two FIPS 140-2 modules are used:

 

As a user of these modules, there is no certification implied for Security Identity Adapters. However, for the correct use of these FIPS 140-2 modules, IBM customers need to follow the instructions listed below.

 

The fipsEnable tool allows the adapter to be Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant. The fipsEnable tool causes the adapter to use a FIPS-certified encryption library so that all cryptographic keys that are used are generated by a FIPS-compliant algorithm. Any communications with the adapter

are also secured. The tool generates the FIPS master key, enables the FIPS mode setting, changes the USE_SSL parameter to TRUE and re-encrypts the existing encrypted values for:

 

 

Note: After FIPS mode is enabled, it cannot be disabled. You must reinstall the adapter, if you want to disable FIPS mode.

 

Configuring the adapter to run in FIPS mode

1. Install the adapter.

2. Run the fipsEnable tool. Issue the command:

fipsEnable -reg agentName

3. Restart the adapter.

 

Operational differences running in FIPS mode

The ADK protocol that’s used to communicate between the adapter and the ADK service provider must run in SSL mode. The fipsEnable tool sets the ADK SSL mode to TRUE. In SSL mode, however, you must install a server certificate because the fipsEnable tool does not convert an existing ADK certificate and key.

 

Note: You cannot import a PKCS12 file containing a certificate and key. You must use CertTool (option A) to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and have it signed by a Certificate Authority. You can then install the signed certificate with CertTool (option B).

 

The agentCfg tool automatically detects when the adapter is running in FIPS mode and initializes the encryption library in FIPS mode. In addition, the ADK only accepts agentCfg connections from localhost (127.0.0.1).

 

Security policy

For FIPS compliance, a security policy must be defined that outlines the requirements for the end user to operate the application in a FIPS-compliant mode. The software ensures that the correct algorithms and keys are used, however, additional requirements for the environment are the responsibility of the security

officer. The security policy defines two roles, security officer and user. It defines the extent to which each of these persons can physically access the workstation, file system and configuration tools. The security of the workstation, of the file system, and of the configuration is the responsibility of the security officer.

 

Authentication roles

The FIPS security policy normally defines separate roles for a security officer and a user. In the case of an adapter, the user role is actually the IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM) or Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) server. The installation and configuration of the adapter needs to be performed by the security officer.

 

It is the responsibility of the security officer to ensure that the proper physical and logical security is in place to prevent access to the adapter by unauthorized personnel. This means that the physical workstation must be in a secure location that is accessible only by persons with the authority and access privileges of the security officer. In addition, the security on the folder in which the adapter is installed must be configured to prevent access by personnel other than security officers.

 

For Windows installations, the system registry must be secured at the top-level key for the adapter to prevent access by personnel other than security officers.

 

Rules of operation

 

Remote Mailbox Support

The adapter now supports remote mailboxes.  This allows supporting Office 365 mailboxes in a hybrid Exchange environment.  A new attribute (erADEremoteAddress) has been added to the user object to support this feature.  There are now 4 ways to create a mailbox with the adapter:

 

  1. Supply a mailbox store (erADEmailboxStore) to create a standard mailbox in the local Exchange server
  2. Supply a target mail address (erADEtargetAddress) to create an external mail account
  3. Supply a valid remote mail address (erADEremoteAddress) to create a remote mailbox
  4. Don’t supply any of the above attributes, but supply any Exchange attribute ( such as erADEalias ) to create a standard mailbox and allow Exchange to decide which mail store to use.

 

To delete a mailbox, simply delete the value for the mail store or mail address.

 

The remote address and target address values use the same user attribute to store their value.  The msExchRecipientType value indicates whether the mailbox is remote or not.  Currently remote addresses appear in the target address field.  You will need to run a full reconciliation after installing this update to populate the remote addresses.

 

Installation and Configuration Notes

See the IBM Security Windows Local Account Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide for detailed instructions.

 

“The previous installation was installed with newer version of InstallAnywhere

You may see this error while running the installer.  It is only a warning and can be safely ignored.

Corrections to Installation Guide

The following corrections to the Installation Guide apply to this release:

Exchange Mailbox Security

 

The settings for Exchange Mailbox security for Read and Full access were using different values for settings in an attempt to have the default values on the form match those of Exchange.  This was confusing and causing issues when the default settings on the Exchange server were changed from what the adapter expected.  The adapter now uses the same values for all Exchange security settings.  1=Allow, 2=Deny and 0 or no value=None.

 

Chapter 4. Adapter installation

Section "Adapter user account creation"

 

The following paragraph is incorrect:

The account information must be supplied on the Active Directory Adapter service form. See “Creating an adapter service” on page 14 for information about creating a service.

 

Furthermore, you must not supply the account information on the service form. The following two fields on the adapter service form are not used and must be blank:

 

è The adapter account, used by the adapter to manage AD/Exchange/Lync, must be supplied on the logon tab of the Windows Adapter service that is named ISIM Active Directory Adapter.

 

Configuration Notes

The following configuration notes apply to this release:

Corrections to User Guide

The following corrections to the User Guide apply to this release:

 

Force Password Change

The "Force Password Change" check box is documented incorrectly in section "Specifying controls for a user account" of the User Guide.

 

It should be as follow: "If you select the Force Password Change check box, then the adapter sets the value of the pwdLastSet attribute to 0. If you do not select the Force Password Change check box, then the adapter sets the value of the pwdLastSet attribute to -1".

 

Table 7. Options for the DAML protocol menu

 

New DAML protocol setting for TLS level

The DAML protocol settings now include a value called MIN_TLS_LEVEL.  The setting supersedes the values DISALBE_SSLV3 and DISABLE_TLS10.  The valid settings for this value are:

 

0          No restrictions.  This setitngs allows SSLV3 connections which are known to have vulnerabilities.

1.0       TLS 1.0 and higher are supported

1.1       TLS 1.1 and higher are supported

1.2       TLS 1.2 and higher are supported

1.3       TLS 1.3 and higher are supported

 

For backward compatibility, if MIN_TLS_LEVEL is not set, it will be set at startup based on the settings of DISABLE_SSLV3 and DISABLE_TLS10.

 

A new option L should be included in the table of DAML protocol options.

 

Displays the following prompt:

 

Modify Property ‘DISABLE_SSLV3’:

 

SSLv3 is now considered an unsecure protocol.  SSLv3 is now disabled by default.  In order to enable SSLv3 you need to set this value to FALSE.  If this value does not exist or is anything other than FALSE, the SSLv3 protocol will be disabled when using SSL.

 

A new option M should be included in the table of DAML protocol options. 

Displays the following prompt:

 

Modify Property ‘DISABLE_TLS10’:

 

TLS1.0 setting is configurable. By default, DISABLE_TLS10 is set to FALSE

 

Setting DISABLE_TLS10 to TRUE will disable TLS1.0 and SSLV3 regardless of the setting for DISABLE_SSLV3.

 

 

Add the following configuration settings topic:

Enabling TLS 1.2 in Identity Manager (ISIM/IGI/ISPIM):

After Setting up certificates in Identity Manager and Adapter, Enable TLS 1.2 by adding/modifying the following line in enRole.properties file in ISIM (equivalent for ISPIM and IGI)
com.ibm.daml.jndi.DAMLContext.SSL_PROTOCOL=TLSv1.2

 

Chapter 7

 

The section “Modifying protocol configuration settings" should add this section for setting the SSL cipher list.

 

Setting the Cipher list

The DAML protocol now checks for an environment variable called "ISIM_ADAPTER_CIPHER_LIST".  This variable can contain a list of ciphers for the SSL protocol.  DAML uses the openSSL library to support SSL.  This cipher string is passed to openSSL during initialization.  The cipher names and the syntax can be found on the openSSL web site ( https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html ).  When this string is used, it only fails if none of the ciphers can be loaded.  It is considered successful if at least one of the ciphers is loaded.

 

 

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

The IBM Security Identity Manager adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.

 

Getting Started

Customizing and extending adapters requires a number of additional skills. The developer must be familiar with the following concepts and skills prior to beginning the modifications:

 

 

Note:  This adapter supports customization only through the use of pre-Exec and post-Exec scripting.

 

IBM Security Identity Manager Resources:

 

Check the “Training" section of the IBM Security Identity Manager Support website for links to training, publications, and demos.

 

Support for Customized Adapters

The integration to the IBM Security Identity Manager server – the adapter framework – is supported. However, IBM does not support the customizations, scripts, or other modifications. If you experience a problem with a customized adapter, IBM Support may require the problem to be demonstrated on the GA version of the adapter before a PMR is opened.

 

Troubleshooting

Log Output From Exchange and Lync powershell calls

The adapter uses a remote powershell session to communicate with Exchange and Lync servers.  This code runs as a pair COM servers in the .NET environment.  As such they do not have access to the adapter logging functions.  However, there are messages that are output to the console.  In order to see these log messages, you must run the adapter in console mode.  This is done by running the adapter directly from the command line and specifying –console as a command line option.  This causes all of the adapter logging as well as any output from the Exchange and Lync modules to be output to the console.  To capture the logging to a file, simply redirect the output of the adapter to a file.  For example:

 

>ADAgent.exe –console > adagent.log

 

Exchange connection issues

The adapter uses remote powershell sessions to manage Exchange servers.  If the adapter has issues connecting to the servers, you can manually run the powershell cmdlets that the adapter uses to troubleshoot the connection errors.

 

Use this command to create a new session on the remote server.  Replace <hostAddr> with the actual hostname or IP of the Exchange server.

 

PS>$mySession = New-PSSession -configurationname Microsoft.Exchange -connectionuri http://<hostAddr>/Powershell -authentication Kerberos

 

Use this command to import the remote session into your local session.  If this is successful, you should be able to run any Exchange cmdlets as if you were on the Exchange server.

PS>import-pssession $mySession

 
Issues when used with multiple Exchange versions

Different versions of Exchange Server have some issues when modifying mailboxes on a server of one version from a powershell session on a server of a different version.  Preferred servers allow you to specify which Exchange servers are used to execute requests.

Preferred servers

There is no API for managing Exchange servers.  They are managed through the use of powershell cmdlets.  The required cmdlets are only available on the Exchange servers.  The adapter must use a remote powershell connection to one of the servers to execute the cmdlets to process a request. 

The adapter uses the concept of preferred servers for both Exchange and Lync.  When a request comes in, the adapter must connect to a remote server to execute the request.  By default it does an LDAP search into AD to find the servers, then tries to connect.  It uses the first server that it can connect with.  If preferred servers are specified, the adapter will try to connect with those servers first.  Setting the exclusive flag to TRUE will force the adapter to only use the preferred servers.

Keep in mind that the preferred servers are where the request is executed.  This has nothing to do with where mailboxes are created.  The account attribute erMailboxStore specifies the mail database which is not necessarily on the preferred server. 

 

 

Installation Platform

The IBM Security Identity Manager Adapter was built and tested on the following product versions.

 

Adapter Installation Platform: 

 

Windows 10

Windows 2016 Server

Windows 2019 Server

 

Managed Resource:

Active Directory on Windows Server 2016          

Active Directory on Windows Server 2019          

 

            With optional:

 

Exchange Server 2016

Exchange Server 2019

Skype For Business Server 2015

Skype For Business Server 2019

 

 

IBM Security Identity Manager:

IBM Security Identity Manager v6.0.x

 

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