Mike Horton

Active Directory Provider 05.00.03 Release

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT

The Active Directory provider has moved from RC to Release

Active Directory Provider Musings and News

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

It's been a long time since I've blogged here on the DotNetNuke site. So long that I had to look to see when my last one was (7/30/2009). At that time it was to announce the release of the 05.00.02 version of the provider. So, almost two years since I've blogged and just that long since a release of the provider. I could say that the provider is just that good that there's been no need for a release but, as I'm sure the users of the provider can attest, that's just not the case.

Why hasn't anything been happening with the provider in all that time? Well a number of things. The primary reason is that my life has gotten extremely busy in the last two years. At the time of the last release I was spending all my free time prepping for my black-belt test in Taekwondo and once I passed the test (November of 2009) I started teaching the beginner classes at the dojang three nights a week (prior to that I was assisting the regular instructors in their classes). Add in family commitments and working on the provider just kept getting pushed to the back-burner. Every month I'd plan to spend at least an hour a night on the provider getting bug fixes done and enhancements added but it just wasn't happening. Now, that's not to say that the code sat there dormant without being looked at all this time. I would open the solution now and then and fix a bug or look at a problem but it never got down to the point where I was ready for a release.

That's changed for a couple of reasons. One was prompted by the future release of DotNetNuke 6. While I'm confident the provider will work fine under DotNetNuke 6 I've always tried to be prepared for the worse and want to make sure as many bug fixes are completed just in case I need to make an emergency fix to the provider.

The second reason was because I've now got a new team member on the provider project. His name is Ashish Prasad. Ashish is a senior developer with DotNetNuke Corporation and has extensive experience deploying the provider from his previous employment. He also gets to talk to provider users first hand through more avenues than email or the forums. Working on the provider will be something that Ashish does on his own time just like I do.

I'd like to welcome Ashish and thank him for approaching me about joining the project. It was the impetus I needed to get my bug fixes checked into Codeplex and to get a new release out.

Enough about the project team and on to the provider. If you visit project's Codplex site and look under the Issue Tracker you'll see a number of items that are listed as Fixed. One of the biggest fixes is the ability to run the provider on IIS 7 under the Integrated pipeline. This fix does require the server administrator to make a change to the applicatonHost.config file but getting the provider to run under the Integrated pipeline has been a major stumbling block since the release of IIS 7. I hope to have a beta released by the middle of April so if there are bugs in the provider that you don't see fixed or listed in Codeplex please make sure you get them in there so that Ash and I can get them fixed up.
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Active Directory Provider 01.00.06 Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Version 01.00.06 of the Active Directory provider has been officially released. Please note that this version is only for the DNN 4 stream of DotNetNuke (4.6.2 and up).

Primarily this release is to make sure that both streams of the provider (DNN 4 and DNN 5) are comparible. There were some breaking changes in DNN 5 that required code changes on the automatic registration and login of users.

A complete list of changes can be found in Gemini.

Support for the provider can be found the the Authentication Providers forum.

The provider source and install package can be found on the Codeplex Active Directory project's download page

Active Directory Provider 05.00.02 Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Version 05.00.02 of the Active Directory provider has been officially released. Please note that this version requires the upcoming DotNetNuke 5.1.0 as the minimum version.

A complete list of changes can be found in Gemini.

Support for the provider can be found the the Authentication Providers forum.

The provider source and install package can be found on the Codeplex Active Directory project's download page

Active Directory Provider 01.00.05 Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Active Directory Provider 05.00.01 Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

DNN 5 and get_ModuleSettings() When Login is Clicked

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Active Directory Provider 01.00.04 Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

I'm happy to announce that the 01.00.04 version of the Active Directory Provider has passed through the DotNetNuke Release Tracker. While there are only about a dozen bug fixes in the release and no new features a couple of the bug fixes are significant performance-wise.

01.00.03 Active Directory Provider Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that the 01.00.03 version of the Active Directory Provider has completed the DNN Release Tracker process and has been released. You can download the provider and the document from the Authentication Provider project page (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/Development/Forge/Authentication/Downloads/tabid/852/Default.aspx).

Changes/Fixes for this release:
ACD-3084 Authentication Configuration.ResetConfig()-does not clear Provider from cache
ACD-4641 AD Module Does Not Detect Membership of Nested Groups
ACD-5563 Passed Parameters Lost When WindowsSignin.aspx is called
ACD-6416 Displayname gets always set, even if a rule is setup
ACD-6451 AD Provider Cannot Be Disabled
ACD-6452 WindowSignin Processing AD Credentials
ACD-6493 "Mixed-Mode" logins
ACD-6901 App Not Initialized Before Active Directory Call
ACD-7038 No Warning that autologin does not work under IIS7/Integrated Pipeline

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OpenID and LiveID Source Released

mike.horton@dotnetnuke.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:00:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that the source code for the LiveID and OpenID providers has been released.