LDAP test environment - ldap

what's the best way to develop with ldap without having the connection to the productive ldap server. Can you recommend some software?
Thanks

I'd say a test instance of OpenLDAP :)

If you're more into the Microsoft space, you could also check out:
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
which is a Windows service based subset of the full AD. You can spin up multiple instances of AD LDS and since it's a Windows service, you can also turn it off when no longer needed.

It depends on what kind of LDAP server you have in production. Usually it's a question "AD or not AD?"
If your productions server is AD then it would be either virtual machine with a domain controller or a local instance of AD LDS (formerly ADAM).
If your production server is a generic LDAP server then there is a wide set of options. These days I would use a virtual machine with any Linux and OpenLDAP or/and Fedora Directory Server, or a local instance(s) of ApacheDS or OpenDS.

If you do not want to install/host/configure a Microsoft Server with Active Directory, you can use the following for LDAP testing purposes:
https://documize.github.io/ad-ldap-test-server/

Try
https://github.com/Upekshe/simple-ldap-server
Its running a nodejs server, highly configurable, supports both ldap and ldaps
Dokerized version
https://hub.docker.com/r/upekshejay/simple-ldap-test-server

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How to authenticate windows client with Ldap server on Linux with share home directory

I want to configure LDAP server on Linux (centos is most preferable) and I want to authenticate from my windows client to that LDAP server (on Linux) and also I want that home folder of the windows user must be stored on LDAP server (on Linux).
So how can I achieve this setup? is it possible?
You will need more than an LDAP server, as Windows clients are relying on more services than just LDAP.
Look at Samba Servers on Linux.

How to authenticate users in a commercial environment without on-premises Windows Server equipment?

So what I need is a remote/cloud Windows Server that I can connect to using RDP (or another remote connection program) where I can create users, groups, basically everything I could do with an on-premises Server instance. What I need though is to be able to setup all the office computers to authenticate through the cloud AD. I have no clue how to do this. I cannot have a Server running on-premises, period. Just need something where I can connect each computer to the remote domain/forest, hopefully using an IP to the server, and then have the employees be able to logon to any domain-connected PC using their credentials. Thank you for any and all answers! -Scott
You need Azure Active Directory. You can control everything with remote management in the way you have described. Per the provided link, "Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides an easy way for businesses to manage identity and access, both in the cloud and on-premises."

does ldap works in a offline environment?

Does LDAP server & phpldapadmin works in an offline environment?
I've successfully tested on a online environment it's works, however there is some issue encounter after i removed the internet connection.
Trying to use LDAP address book for outlook
any help?
I think it depends what you are trying to achieve and where is your LDAP server. But generally, LDAP directory servers are centralized, and an offline environment will not be able to access it.
It doesn't work in local network or offline, When you test your solution in local environment. When you publish your solution deploy in server then run on test production link it will works

Could not access the SSO database During biztalk runtime Configuration

I'm trying to test a migration of moving a BizTalk SQL Server from one server to another. Here are the details.
Currently it was all on a single server in a dev environment, BizTalk SQL, SSO and BizTalk runtime all on one server. It is a Windows 2008 R2 server with SQL Server 2008 R2.
What I want to do is split out the SSO Master secret server and BizTalk databases to a Windows Server 2012/SQL Server 2012 setup. So far I got SSO all setup on the new SQL server. I configured just the SSO portion on that server and all went well.
I then unconfigured the existing BizTalk Runtime and then went to configure again, using the new Windows/SQL Server/SSO in the configuration process.
All goes well up to the point where it tries to configure the BizTalk runtime. That being said all the database are created, SSODB, BizTalkMessageBoxDb, all of them. But when it goes to configure BizTalk Runtime, it hangs for a while and several of the following errors show up in both of the Server's logs:
Could not access the SSO database. If this condition persists, the SSO service will go offline.
Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding..
SQL Error code: 0xFFFFFFFE
It shows up in the SQL/SSO servers logs first, then the Runtime server a few seconds later. Eventually the configuration times out and fails. I believe it's permissions related, but I can't seem to figure out what it would be.
Questions:
what permissions do I need to review?
would the fact that the new server is Windows 2012/SQL 2012 while the runtime server is Windows 2008 be an issue?
is there any way I can get more details on this error?
Edit to add both DTCPing and DTCTester pass with flying colours and I can connect to SQL via SSMS from the server. Firewall has been completely disabled for now in order to eliminate that as well.
How were your service accounts configured in the first environment? Typically a single DEV environment with everything on one box can be done by using a local account on that server. If you now split out your SSO onto another server (it doesn't matter if it's W2K12 instead of W2K8), you are going to have to switch your service account(s) and groups for BizTalk to Domain accounts.
In a multicomputer environment, BizTalk Server supports only domain groups and domain service accounts. Domain groups include Domain Local groups (not recommended), Global groups, and Universal groups. Built-in accounts such as NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE, NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, and Everyone are not supported if you want to configure BTS in a multicomputer environment.
Make sure your SSO is running as a domain account, and a member of an SSO Administrators domain group - and ensure this domain account/group combo is configured for the SSO system on the SQL server (instead of local accounts):
After that the SSO system you join from the BizTalk Server before configuring the runtime on BizTalk Server usually needs to be configured with the same domain service account for SSO:

Admin Server and Managed Server set to Production mode in Weblogic

I am very new to Weblogic and have a question.
I have a Admin Server and four Managed Server .
I want to set Prodcution Mode to true in Admin Domain , would this also run all the managed servers in Production Mode ?
Also, does this change require weblogic restart ?
I am using Weblogic 12c.
Thanks
All servers in the domain run in production or development mode, it is a domain wide setting. Managed servers refer to the admin server to determine their run mode. And yes you will need to restart all servers in your domain for this to take affect.
Google is your friend - this was the first link that came up:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/apirefs.1111/e13952/taskhelp/domainconfig/ChangeRuntimeModes.html