Although coding for GSOC had to be started in the last week of May, I could not get my hands off getting Microsoft Active Diretory to work with Joomla.

I could manage to work it for Joomla Autthentication. Wrote some bits of code in PHP to push some user objects into it. I thought I should try to push the user from the Joomla, but got into another problem of not being able to modify the password (the 'unicodePwd' of AD) from PHP.

So for time being I thought I should keep the AD thingy aside and start some coding stuff.

The current status of the coding is:

I coded the component to manage the various LDAP configurations, wherein the administrator can add various LDAP configurations.

The next thing is I am in the process of coding a component to manage the templates for populating the user data to be pushed into the directory which will enable administrator to enter the details of the attributes and the objectclasses which may be different for different directory implementations.

So the next step is,  I will be coding the component to manage these templates(which will use one of the ldap configurations).

After getting these base configurations done, I will code for pushing the users details into the directory.