Resources for Solaris and Active Directory Integration
A while back I worked with a client to implement Active Directory (AD) integration for a number of Solaris containers that made up their SAS platform. The main benefit of this was to allow all of the...
View ArticleFavourite Platform Admin Papers from SAS Global Forum 2011
These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2011. As a platform administrator and metadata fan I am obviously biased to a specific subset of papers. I’m sure there were many other great...
View ArticleSAS and IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) Notes
Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS® 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform....
View ArticleSAS and IWA: Two Hops
In an earlier post I mentioned that I would jot down a few notes about my experiences with SAS® software and Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is the first of these posts and concerns the...
View ArticleSAS & IWA: Verifying Trusted for Delegation Status
I mentioned in a previous post that host machines need to be Trusted for Delegation when a SAS® software component, such as a SAS Workspace Server, needs to make outgoing connections to secondary...
View ArticleSAS & IWA: Host Name Aliases and SPNs
I’m quite keen on using host name aliases, rather than their physical host names, when referring to machines in SAS® platform installations. It does however mean a little extra configuration is...
View ArticleSAS & IWA: Reviewing SPNs
My last post was about configuring additional Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory to support the use of Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in a SAS® platform installation that uses...
View ArticleSAS & IWA: Check the Logs
When testing Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) based client connections to SAS® platform servers, it is well worth checking the SAS logs to verify the connections are being made the way you...
View ArticleIWA with SAS 9.4 M2 on Linux
I’ve just finished a challenging but very rewarding experience configuring a SAS 9.4 M2 platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), for both server and mid-tiers ….. without using...
View ArticleSAS Visual Analytics Guest Access with IWA Fallback
Yesterday I wrote a post about configuring a SAS® 9.4 M2 installation on Linux for Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) with mid-tier fallback form-based authentication to handle situations where...
View ArticleConfig Notes: SAS Mid-Tier (Linux) IWA with Fallback
Continuing on the theme of configuring a SAS 9.4 M2 platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 12-15 – configuring the SAS...
View ArticleSynchronizing SAS Platform Identities
I’ve been spending lots of time lately on SAS® platform identity synchronizations. I’m fairly confident that I’ve done more Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to SAS Metadata Server synchronizations in...
View ArticleActive Directory Authentication for SAS on Linux (with realmd)
This is another post in the series about configuring a SAS platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 1-7 – configuring the...
View ArticleIdentity Sync: Multiple Active Directory Domains (Single Forest)
Recently I’ve been working on using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in to synchronize SAS platform identities (users and groups) with their counterparts from multiple Microsoft Active Directory (AD)...
View ArticleIdentity Sync: Finding Your Keys
Using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in with a new SAS installation is easy. All of the defaults are based on common practices for synchronizing Active Directory users and groups with a SAS metadata...
View ArticleAuto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users
In a previous post I’ve described a method for configuring Active Directory Authentication for SAS® on Linux (with realmd). One of the packages that’s installed is oddjob-mkhomedir. This package...
View ArticleReviewing SSL/TLS Certificate Chain for Active Directory Server
Sometimes when I am setting up, or helping someone setup, identity synchronisation between the SAS® platform and Microsoft Active Directory (AD), I run into SSL/TLS certificate validation issues. I am...
View ArticleMetacoda Identity Sync and Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023
Those of you who use Metacoda Identity Sync may have already heard about Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023. You may have heard about it from Stuart Rogers’ post on SAS Communities: SAS Viya The...
View ArticleSAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) with LDAPS to Windows 2012 R2
I recently installed a local copy of SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) in our Kubernetes lab environment and was trying to configure it to work with a test AD server, Windows 2012 R2. The AD server had been...
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