Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Planning for Coexistence with NetWare

Coexistence between Active Directory and NetWare is the second most common coexistence scenario, following coexistence between Active Directory and Windows NT 4.0. Many organizations have Windows NT application servers but have maintained NetWare for their network environment, files, and printers because they needed a hierarchical directory. Now that Windows 2000 is a viable option, these organizations are beginning to implement Active Directory as well as NDS. In many cases, it is not prudent to perform a rapid migration to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Instead, the Network Administrators in these organizations want to establish an Active Directory environment with which their Windows NT Servers ...