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Installing an LDAP server is not part of the default IBM WebSphere Portal installation, so install, setup, and configure the Microsoft Active Directory separately. We can install the Active Directory on the same machine as WebSphere Portal or we can install it on a remote machine.

1. Install Active Directory
   If necessary, use the information in this file to install Microsoft Active Directory so that we can set up and configure Active Directory as the LDAP server for IBM WebSphere Portal.

2. Create required LDAP users and groups
   Before we can configure IBM WebSphere Portal to work with the LDAP server, the LDAP user registry must have some minimal user and group information already populated. This section describes the procedures necessary to set up the LDAP server to work with WebSphere Portal.

3. Set up Microsoft Active Directory
   Use this information to set up Microsoft Active Directory as the LDAP server.

4. Disable WAS global security
   If WAS global security is enabled, disable it before modifying the security configuration.

5. Configure Active Directory
   We can choose to configure the LDAP to support one-realm (non-realm support) or multiple realms (realm support).

6. Verify LDAP
   After setting security with LDAP, use this information to verify that the LDAP server for WebSphere Portal has been properly configured.

7. Set up LDAP over SSL to Active Directory
   Configure the Active Directory over SSL to ensure the confidentiality of the data exchanged between WAS, WebSphere Portal, and the LDAP user registry.

 

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LDAP user registry

 

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