Vsphere 5.5 and active directory

[Bluemoon404]

HI,

I'm having an issue trying to set up a new centre 5.5 appliance to use AD permissions. My ad is 2012, I have given the host in which the vc appliance sits on a FQDN and joined it to the domain, I then go to the VC Appliance and join this to AD which it says is successful. When I go to add permissions the ad domain is not there only local and sphere.local is displayed.

When I look in AD I have noticed that the host and the VC do not have computer accounts although they seem to have joined the domain successfully.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Paul

[a_p_]

Once you join the appliance to the AD, an account should be created in "Computers".

Anyway, before you can add permissions for an AD user or group, you need to add the domain to the SSO "Identity Sources". To do this, login as administrator@vsphere.local and select "Administration" -> "Single Sign-On" -> "Configuration" -> "Identity Sources".

André

[Bluemoon404]

Thanks, I have created the Sso password and used an internal source. Still no joy

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[Bluemoon404]

Could someone please confirm if they have a VC appliance 5.5 added to AD does this show up as a computer object in AD. I'm thinking of pre creating the computer objects to try and get this working.

i've never had any problems with this with any other version other than 5.5 VC appliance which seems to be a major issue with AD  Hopefully vmware can address these probs quickly

[a_p_]

I installed a couple of vCSA 5.5 (GA as well as Update1) appliances with joining them to AD, and never had any issues with this.

Make sure you enter the DNS name for the domain (e.g. domain.local) and enter the user account like administrator@domain.local.

André

[vThinkBeyondVM]

This works fine for me. Let me check my configuration and come back

[kashifkarar01 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please lookinto this link, hope this helps you:

http://wahlnetwork.com/2013/09/09/using-active-directory-integrated-windows-authentication-sso-5-5/ 

[Bluemoon404]

I've got this working now thanks for the help. The VC still does not show up in ADUC. I'd configured the SSO but had missed the "Identity Sources" part