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Microsoft Metadirectory Services - Overview

Overview Few years ago, it was reported that most large corporations had on average 181 different directories. How many more do they have today? How many do you have? To this day directory chaos continues to rule at most organizations. Microsoft Meta directory Services (MMS) is a solution to this chaos. MMS provides benefits like Administrative cost reduction, Business process integration, improved consistency and data integrity, increased security, and Broad connectivity.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2001	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
Topics	Directory Services

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