Version 5.2 of View500 became available on the 25th of June, 2002.

Tree Browsing
This version of View500 saw the WebDUA get a facelift to illustrate new functionality. The major upgrades included new graphics and Tree Browsing functionality. The WebDUA now allows user's to navigate through the Directory Information Tree via a graphical interface.

LDAP Enhancements
In the DSA Server, additional portions of the LDAP specification were implemented. Such features include:
+ LDAP Controls.
Controls are defined as part of the LDAP standard and can be used to convey additional information or functionality through the existent LDAP protocol. Newly supported controls included:
# Server Side Sorting Control
This control allows LDAP clients to request that the DSA sort search results before returning them.
# Paged Search results Control.
This control can be used by clients to instruct the DSA server to only return a subset (whose size is specified by the client) of results. The client is then able to repeat the request and get the next set of results at its leisure.
# Proxied Authorization Control.
This control allows an LDAP Client to perform LDAP operations on behalf of other users. This is useful when applications manage their own user authentication, and would like to act on the user's behalf to access the directory.
# LDAP Password Policy Control.
When an LDAP Password Policy is being applied within the directory, this control can be used to convey information from the DSA to the user. Such information may include the amount of time that a user has left before they must change their password.

+ LDAP Extension - Transport Layer Security.
This extended operation provides additional security for LDAP connections.

+ LDAP Password Policy.
This standards based feature allows an administrator to specify password policies for password attributes. This policy is highly configurable and allows the adminstrator to enforce an appropriate level of password security to reduce the possibility of a secrity breach due to password compriomise.

+ Chaining LDAP Operations
Leveraging off the X.500's distribution protocols, the DSA is now able to convert an LDAP request into DAP and distribute the operation to other DSA's. This mechanism allows an LDAP client to interact more fully within an X.500 distributed environment.

AdminDUA
The AdminDUA was enhanced to allow access control information to be imported and exported from the directory. Once exported, access control information can be easily imported from a file. This saves time, since making the configuration via a GUI can be by-passed.

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