HI All,

Good day to all and I hope you could help :-) 

To start with, the company i've been working for has been using DNN 4.4.1 using MS-SQL authentication which we implemented for 300 users. Until recently, AD using Windows 2003 Server was mandated on us just few months ago which left out our DNN site still authenticating to the DB. I have few questions for you and I hope you could share some light over our predicament:

1) Is it OK and possible to migrate authentication in our already working DNN 4.4.1 from MS-SQL to AD?
2) Is the AD provider in DNN 4.4.1 works with AD in Windows 2003 just ok?
3) Do I need to know any caveats in AD in DNN 4.4.1?
4) other things I should add in my checklist

Thanks in advance!

Thanks a bunch Mike,

I think your suggestion for a mirror install sounds good instead of doing AD in a flick of a switch (or a few typing of parameters in this context ). Now it occurred to me that the role assignments are possibly the ones that will give me a headache since the there are quite a number of users assigned to various custom roles.

Are the custom roles in the DNN DB still usable/assignable to AD accounts after switching to AD? For example if I have a "userA" in DNN MS-SQL with an authentication role assigned as "IT web admin", then with AD, UserA becomes CORPDOM\UserA, can I still assign the "IT web admin" role to CORPDOM\UserA from AD? or do I need to do everything in AD?

I'm not familiar with role synchronization yet - but i'll read over it and see if it has a major impact with my users. I'll post back here soon whether I've done it successfully or not.