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Very interested in this topic as well, since it was talked up at the conference.
WindchillDS will still be required as a separate ldap server for Windchillwhen you source your users/passwords from a corporate ldap. All we're doing is replacing Aphelion with another ldap server. There are several reasons for this, one of the most important being that we will be able togive better support by doingan in-house development branch on the open-source project (OpenDS).
The transition shouldn't be too painful. Please see the chapter on migrating at http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=98719. This isn't like having to blow away and rebuild all your search indexes during the Retrievalware to Fast transition. Export and import of the ldap data is usually pretty quick.
Any other specific questions? The administration interfaceitselfis pretty straightforward.
In Reply to Wes Tucker:
9.1 m030 Windchill replaces Aphelion with "Windchill Directory Server"
which "is powered by OpenDS technology" (https://www.opends.org/1.2).
Does anyone have any feedback on this change?
I can see how a newer implementation of LDAP could have some good
performance benefits etc, since Aphelion seemed to be getting a little
long in the tooth. Aphelion was always required even if you used a
corporate LDAP for authentication so this change seems fairly
significant from a system administration viewpoint even if it should be
invisible to my Windchill users.
-=wes