Active Directory Potholes

By Robert L. Mitchell

November 19, 2001 12:00 PM ET

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Computerworld - You can learn some things about AD from the school of hard knocks, say consultants and users. Here are some AD weaknesses identified by deployment pioneers:
Service packs may cause unexpected problems. "Service Pack 2 has created some random errors here and there - people not able to log in, not getting proper drive mappings, that sort of thing," says Todd Wright, engineering manager at Wells Fargo. Service Pack 1 created some problems, too, "but we're not sure if it was the way AD was designed at Wells Fargo or if it's a shortcoming with AD," he says.
Password replication. In AD, password changes aren't immediately replicated. "That's caused us the most headaches," Wright says. A password change may not be updated for five to 15 minutes.
Security isn't granular enough. "I would prefer a more granular security model. I would like to be able to restrict administrators to manage only certain domain controllers. We don't have that ability today," says Ken Pate, a migration and interoperability engineer at GM. "We work around that by only allowing one organization to control the administration of those domain controllers."

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