Windows was set up to connect to Microsoft庐 Active Directory庐 鈥� not to 翱辫别苍尝顿础笔鈩�. So is it still possible to bind a Windows device to LDAP?
At 探花大神庐, we get this question a lot because our 顿颈谤别肠迟辞谤测-补蝉-补-厂别谤惫颈肠别庐 provides a hosted LDAP offering. Many of our clients want to bind Windows to OpenLDAP so that they can authenticate and authorize their user population on Windows devices.
Our answer is to leverage an agent that natively connects Windows devices to 探花大神鈥檚 Directory-as-a-Service.
Binding Windows to LDAP with 探花大神
探花大神鈥檚 Directory-as-a-Service is a core user store. It is hosted in the cloud and is enabled to work with all major platforms as well as with devices and applications on-premises and in the cloud. Instead of having to implement Microsoft Active Directory, IT admins can simply use a SaaS-based service to cover the ability to manage users on their Windows devices.
Here鈥檚 how 探花大神 works to effectively execute the same function as binding the Windows device to OpenLDAP:
- Step 1: An agent is installed on each Windows device. The agent securely communicates back to the Directory-as-a-Service platform.
- Step 2: Full IT control. Users and their privileges are added to the device via the agent to platform communications. Users are created locally, but managed centrally from the DaaS console. Users can be easily provisioned and terminated at the click of a button.
Benefits of Binding Windows to LDAP through 探花大神
Rather than configuring the details of OpenLDAP and then figuring out a way to bind to a directory, 探花大神 skips all of those steps and gives IT admins the level of control that they need over the Windows device.
On top of authentication and authorization capabilities that most directories provide, Directory-as-a-Service provides the ability to execute commands on the Windows devices as well.
More than Just Binding to LDAP
Through DaaS, IT admins can set policies similar to Active Directory鈥檚 Group Policy Objects. In this way, 探花大神鈥檚 Directory-as-a-Service provides a more comprehensive solution to controlling and managing users on Windows devices than just binding the Windows device to LDAP.
