Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Administration

Unfortunately, for directory administrators the workload is undetermined and ongoing. There could be no changes for a week, or there could be a hundred in a single day. The challenge never ends, and with all this effort the directory is viewed as a resource but not an accurate source for directory data. Thus, individuals start creating their own private directories. Excel spreadsheets with subsets of the information are on desktops everywhere. In the ideal case, all the information you need to know could be obtained by a simple query of the larger directory.

The impact to your organization is three-fold. There is duplication of effort. Staff in your organization are creating and inputting the same information in multiple instances. ...