October 17th, 2008
Many of our customers find it difficult to figure out which LDAP query to run in their Google Search Appliance (GSA) or Google Mini (Mini) LDAP setup wizard. When configuring LDAP on the GSA, a common issue that the user may run into is finding the correct information for the “Distinguished Name” (DN) field.
Our solution to this problem is a handy command that can be executed on your server providing Active Directory.
In order to quickly find the DN, open a command prompt and enter the command “adsiedit.msc”.

After you execute this command navigate to the account in which you are seeking the distinguished name (This is typically your account).

Right-click on that account and select “properties”.

Then find the “Distinguished Name” category, double-click, and you will have the answer you seek.

Tags: ADSI, Google Mini, Google Search Appliance, LDAP configuration, Support Help
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July 14th, 2008
Google Enterprise has released the long awaited 5.0.4 release. Most notably in this release is support Microsoft Office 2007 documents and the connector manager auth prompt bug fix.
Existing customers can goto:
https://support.google.com/enterprise/doc/gsa/00/update_index_page.html
to download the new system and software versions. I’ll updated this thread with any discoveries that we find in our upgrades. Please write your findings as well.
Update:
We’ve attempted to update two GSAs. The first last week went fine. The one we attempted today twice had a checksum error….
Downloading URL http://support.google.com/enterprise/updates/XXXXXXX
Percent completed: 100%
MD5 Checksum = 74f78e89c09d4be143c3b1d5ca1a4fb7
** Unpacking downloaded file **
ERROR: Downloaded file is not properly signed or corrupted. Please try again one more time.
Tags: 5.0.4, Google Search Appliance, Updates
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