For Drupal to be truly effective in the enterprise, it must integrate with existing enterprise authentication and identity management systems. Microsoft's Active Directory is one such system in very wide distribution. Here's a method for integrating Drupal users, roles and profiles with an existing AD environment.
This article shows a simple way to backup and restore both the files and data of a Drupal 6 website from the command line. Customize to taste and comment with recommendations for improvement.
The following is a two part script to configure RedHat Enterprise Linux for Drupal, and then create a Drupal site using the Acquia distribution. The script is not fully automated and will require some user interaction. Please note that the site should be registered in DNS to be accessible.
