This video of a presentation by Scott Chacon has helped me start to get my head around Git.
I’ve started experimenting with Git in my current PowerShell project, and I’m going to watch it again, now that I’ve got a little bit of actual expeience.
I’m upgrading the components of the user provisioning system I built. Previously, I used ActiveState Perl and the UWinnipeg PPM repository to get the Net::LDAPS stack working.
This time, though, I decided I wanted to use the native architecture of my Server 2008 R2 systems. I am using the Perl64 install from ActiveState, but I have to build my own SSL libraries (and maybe roll up PPMs for the needed perl mods).
I just compiled OpenSSL for x64 (amd64), mostly following the instructions in the INSTALL.W64 and INSTALL.W32 documents. I’m blogging the step for my future reference:
Running the openssl command succeeds:
C:\local\openssl\bin>openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010
Working on the Server 2008 hard limit of 5000 attribute values max per query, which breaks our Identity Management process. I’m looking at having to write a clone of LDIFDE that can issue queries using Range Retrieval and then synthesizes a single LDIF entry for groups with more than 5000 members.
Safari Tech Books online provides some good resources, including The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming [at Amazon], which provides a good code example in Listing 6.8. Range Retrieval Using DirectorySearcher.
Or maybe I should just post-process the LDIFDE-generated LDIF file…