Wow. I have never heard of anybody having it so bad. First of all, if you're a coder, then you should focus on coding. You need the experience of having built something. You should decide on your own to build some big non-hacker software project. Then, in your interview--even if you haven't had a job yet--you can talk about the experience of moving a project from concept to finished code.
Guys,
Granted this is not IT but it's funny nonetheless. In 1997, I lived in St. Petersburg Russia. Great experience. I rented an apartment from a Russian lady with a wart named Svetlana for $110.00/mo. One day, when I was going into the bathroom, I noticed a fine spray of hot water coming from the wall. Inspecting the area, I saw two verticle pipes going up to the apartment above me. They of course had a branch for my apartment. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the hot water pipe had a huge tumor of rust under 50 layers of paint. Besides the general wetness, I saw that the rust had so degraded the pipe that it was allowing a fine mist of hot water to escape.
When my Russian friends (17-year-old girls from the neighborhood) came over, I pointed this out to them and they all, in unison said: "Ah, dolzhen zvonit master" (You need to call the master). Seeing lots of rubles being lost in such an activity, I asked them how I would do that. One of them, Natasha, said she would make the call for me. The next day, I woke to a furious knocking on my door. I said "Kto tam?" (Who's there?) and "Mahster" came back. I opened the door to find a very short man, spitting image of Chico Marx, standing there. Behind him was Harpo, just as short, with blond hair. The man entered my apartment and asked me "Gde deerka" (Where's the hole?) I led him to the bathroom and he immediately saw the rust tumor, which he flaked off with his finger. Nodding, he vanished. About ten minutes later, I saw him back at my door, and he did not have a replacement pipe. Instead, he was dragging a long pair of hoses to an oxy-acetelyn torch. He dragged it in my apartment and, without even turning the water off or scraping away the 50 layers of paint, proceeded to weld over the tumor in place! After about 20 minutes, the tumor was replaced with a large keloid of brazing rod and my leak was fixed! Only in Russia!
AC,
We used manuals up the Wazoo and still had problems. I understand that RTFM is standard industry response to problems but it still was notable how much pain was involved in an AD implementation. (Sorry, I'm from the Java world where everything is much easier, IMHO.)
Having worked on both, I can promise you that you will be happier with implementing an LDAP solution. Let's step aside right now. Your problem is now how to migrate your AD stuff to LDAP. Just step back and remember what you're trying to accomplish. You need to do Authent & Authoriz for users. Build that directly without worrying how the AD world does it. We did a migration from LDAP to AD (the customer demanded it--their legacy was AD) and we had ten-thousand more problems getting Active Directory to work. Therefore, I know you will find the reverse is much simpler. Don't try to make a hybrid--just start over with LDAP and your requirements. Don't keep the AD blinders on. As for your other application issues, you will have your own troubles with those. Still, going to the Linux, Java world, you will find life so much easier than in the MS world, in my opinion.
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Wow. I have never heard of anybody having it so bad. First of all, if you're a coder, then you should focus on coding. You need the experience of having built something. You should decide on your own to build some big non-hacker software project. Then, in your interview--even if you haven't had a job yet--you can talk about the experience of moving a project from concept to finished code.
Guys, Granted this is not IT but it's funny nonetheless. In 1997, I lived in St. Petersburg Russia. Great experience. I rented an apartment from a Russian lady with a wart named Svetlana for $110.00/mo. One day, when I was going into the bathroom, I noticed a fine spray of hot water coming from the wall. Inspecting the area, I saw two verticle pipes going up to the apartment above me. They of course had a branch for my apartment. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the hot water pipe had a huge tumor of rust under 50 layers of paint. Besides the general wetness, I saw that the rust had so degraded the pipe that it was allowing a fine mist of hot water to escape. When my Russian friends (17-year-old girls from the neighborhood) came over, I pointed this out to them and they all, in unison said: "Ah, dolzhen zvonit master" (You need to call the master). Seeing lots of rubles being lost in such an activity, I asked them how I would do that. One of them, Natasha, said she would make the call for me. The next day, I woke to a furious knocking on my door. I said "Kto tam?" (Who's there?) and "Mahster" came back. I opened the door to find a very short man, spitting image of Chico Marx, standing there. Behind him was Harpo, just as short, with blond hair. The man entered my apartment and asked me "Gde deerka" (Where's the hole?) I led him to the bathroom and he immediately saw the rust tumor, which he flaked off with his finger. Nodding, he vanished. About ten minutes later, I saw him back at my door, and he did not have a replacement pipe. Instead, he was dragging a long pair of hoses to an oxy-acetelyn torch. He dragged it in my apartment and, without even turning the water off or scraping away the 50 layers of paint, proceeded to weld over the tumor in place! After about 20 minutes, the tumor was replaced with a large keloid of brazing rod and my leak was fixed! Only in Russia!
AC, We used manuals up the Wazoo and still had problems. I understand that RTFM is standard industry response to problems but it still was notable how much pain was involved in an AD implementation. (Sorry, I'm from the Java world where everything is much easier, IMHO.)
Having worked on both, I can promise you that you will be happier with implementing an LDAP solution. Let's step aside right now. Your problem is now how to migrate your AD stuff to LDAP. Just step back and remember what you're trying to accomplish. You need to do Authent & Authoriz for users. Build that directly without worrying how the AD world does it. We did a migration from LDAP to AD (the customer demanded it--their legacy was AD) and we had ten-thousand more problems getting Active Directory to work. Therefore, I know you will find the reverse is much simpler. Don't try to make a hybrid--just start over with LDAP and your requirements. Don't keep the AD blinders on. As for your other application issues, you will have your own troubles with those. Still, going to the Linux, Java world, you will find life so much easier than in the MS world, in my opinion.