Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Growing with Your Applications

An important aspect of planning for scalability is taking in to account the impact of any applications that will eventually be taking advantage of Active Directory functionality. Some enterprise software vendors, such as Baan and SAP, have released product roadmaps that include leveraging Active Directory for profile management and other functionality. You should plan for additional capacity in Active Directory if your organization has these applications deployed.

If you are planning for integrating applications with Active Directory, it is important to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of Active Directory. Active Directory is a highly distributed and replicated directory and, as such, is ideal for storing ...