Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

Active Directory Open Design

Nowadays wherever you go, you see a reference to an Internet site or email address or hear that a brand-new technology is born on the Internet. If you deploy a platform, how important is the integration of this platform with current Internet standard technology? I'm sure you agree that it's extremely important to integrate new standards into the platform (sometime de jure standards and sometimes de facto standards). Not every new technology is good and consequently its cycle of life will be short. However, some technologies are really good, and they have the main attention of software designers in their main projects. Even though the LDAP and X.500 technologies have been in place for a while, right now they have momentum ...