In theory, Microsoft was waiting in the wings with Active Directory - to be delivered with Windows 2000 - which would provide NDS with direct competition and possibly grind it into history. Novell is now releasing eDirectory, an extension of NDS...
Despite the attention of the DoJ and the European Commission, Longbottom singled out the Active Directory part of Windows 2000 for praise. However, he warned that Microsoft partner Cisco Systems - which has been working with the technology for...
Traditionally you would find pockets of NetWare dotted around an organisation, linking 10 PCs to a printer in accounts payable or letting the marketing department share common files. NetWare Directory Services (NDS) saw the light of day with the...
These improvements will be particularly important for some core Windows services, including Windows Terminal Server (WTS), Internet Information Server (IIS) and Active Directory, Gartner said. Companies with aggressive adoption plans should start...
The idea that management can be more automatic and software updating can be more automatic, state-replication more automatic - there are some big things here that can drive the industry forward. We have Active Directory, which we are making a lot...
One of the new features is "secure-at-install", which is designed to help secure new installations of the operating system in specific server roles. ADFS lets users create trust relationships with other Active Directory users and enable...