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[Feature Request] add some sanity checking for OAB virtual directory configuration in HealthChecker.ps1

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Since Dec 6, 2024.

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Description

Is your request related to a problem? Please describe.
there are obviously many ways someone can break an OAB directory configuration

a nice feature add to HealthChecker.ps1 tool would be to some basic checks of sane/modern configuration settings

Describe The Request
suggestion would be some OAB configuration health validation
e.g.

  • does an OAB exist?
  • has it been updated recently?
  • is an external URL value present?
  • is an internal URL value present?
  • do the URLs use https://? (probably should flag an http:// url at this point)
  • is global web distribution enabled?
  • is shadow distribution enabled?
  • authentication mechanisms might be worth listing (i've seen OAuth getting enabled on for OabVirtualDirectory even when its not supported in the environment)
  • (i feel like there are some other commonly misconfigured OAB related items i'm not remembering here)

Additional context
OAB is an example of a neglected service that is mostly out of sight and often misconfigured IME.

the HealthChecker.ps1 script has done a great job surfacing other items like this and i think there is some opportunity to add some functionality to the tool to help folks find some less obvious configuration issue they might want to tune

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