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Active Directory
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An advanced, hierarchical directory service that comes with Windows 2000 servers. It is LDAP compliant and built on the Internet's Domain Naming System (DNS). Workgroups are given domain names, just like Web sites, and any LDAP-compliant client (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.) can gain access to it.

Active Directory can function in a heterogeneous, enterprise network and encompass other directories including NDS and NIS+. Cisco supports Active Directory in its IOS router operating system. See forests and trees, ADSI and directory service.


(operating system)Active Directory - A directory service from Microsoft Corporation, similar in concept to Novell Netware Directory Services, that also integrates with the user organisation's DNS structure and is interoperable with LDAP. Active Directory is included in Windows 2000.

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"The Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) are key to Microsoft's strategy to help customers manage their mixed directory environments," said Dave Thompson, director of Windows NT Distributed Systems at Microsoft.
"The Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) are key to Microsoft's strategy to help customers manage their mixed directory environments," said Dave Thompson, director of Windows NT Distributed Systems at Microsoft.
 
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