Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Application developments

This is the area that has benefited most from AD LDS capabilities. Application developments involve lots of research and testing. If these applications are AD-integrated, it is obvious that they need to be developed and tested within an AD environment. During the process, you may be required to build many test environments. If they're full-blown AD DS instances, it will take resources, time, and effort to deploy and maintain them. AD LDS allows you to run multiple instances of it within the same environment, independently. Each instance will have its own schema, and engineers can maintain the instance for each application test environment. Even if it looks like a cut-down version, it provides the same AD DS authentication ...