Microsoft Active Directory Import support for Windows 2012, 2016, and later domains

Products

• IT Management Suite
• Client Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

As per About Microsoft Active Directory Import, it mentions that "Microsoft Active Directory Import supports Windows 2003 and 2008 domains" (as of June 25, 2021): 

Microsoft Active Directory Import uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to provide one-way synchronization from Active Directory to the Symantec Management Platform. LDAP is the same protocol used by standard Active Directory administration tools. Microsoft Active Directory Import supports Windows 2003 and 2008 domains.

 

Can you confirm whether this is the minimum requirement or it is also supported on 2012, 2016, etc. domains?

 

Environment

ITMS 8.5, 8.6

Resolution

With recent releases, ITMS 8.5 and 8.6, we still support earlier 2003 and 2008 domains during our Microsoft Active Directory Imports.
As well, with recent domain versions like 2012 and 2016, all of these are working well. We recently did most of our tests on 2016 domains.

 

For us, it's just an LDAP protocol that domain structure should support, so AD Import works fine. Unless Microsoft introduces breaking changes in LDAP protocol in AD, we are not concerned about the versions of AD.

 

We haven't made any fixes in our code in years because MS shipped a new version of AD import.