Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Publisher and Subscriber Directories

Coexistence between two directory services is typically configured in such a way that one directory is a publisher and the other directory is the subscriber. This means that one directory is the owner of the data and the second directory simply receives updates of the data. In the case of synchronizing directory data between Active Directory and NDS, the most likely configuration is for NDS to be the subscriber and Active Directory to be the publisher. The reason for this is that Active Directory will most likely be the long-term migration path and, consequently, will own the synchronization process and the data from the beginning. The relationship between the two directories is identified in Figure 6.1 ...