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MS Windows Server 2016 is deprecating Identity Management for Unix (IDMU). What issues will this cause for Authentication Services? -
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Windows Server 2016 is deprecating Identity Management for Unix (IDMU). What effect will this have on Authentication Services? -
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Microsoft deprecating Identity Management for Unix (IDMU) will not cause any issues for Authentication Services.
Authentication Services has it's own set of Windows tools and does not depend on the IDMU.
Authentication Services uses the MS Windows RFC 2307 Unix schema support which was introduced in MS Server 2003 R2.
Authentication Services also provides powershell commandlets and Unix attributes can be modified from the Unix side using any ldap tool like ldapmodify or vastool.
In general though the Authentication Services ADUC plugin is used which is part of the Authentication Services Windows tools.