Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS: Active Directory, Databases, Development, and More

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10. Identity

Ryan Pothecary¹  

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Tonyrefail, UK

 

I remember having to create a “network user” for myself on every individual server in the office. This was back in the days of using Novell NetWare 3.11 in the early 1990s. Every morning, I’d have to connect and authenticate to several different servers because each one had something different that I needed. One was for printer access, another for my “Home Drive,” and the third for office files. In 1993, I asked my boss to allow me a day off to attend a Novell seminar at their UK offices. It was there that I saw NetWare 4.0 for the first time and heard of something called NetWare Directory ...