Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) is a powerful tool for an enterprise computing environment, but there haven’t been many enterprise environments lining up to adopt it. According to February 2001 data from the Giga Information Group, Windows 2000 server licenses exceeded the 1 million copy mark, but only 10 to 15 percent have deployed AD in any way.

Many of the AD deployments have been relegated to lab testing or small, virgin Windows 2000 environments. (more…)

active directory, ldap, microsoft

The COMDEX fall convention is the largest computer related convention in the world. Each fall 220,000 people converge on Las Vegas with the stated purpose of seeing the latest innovations in computer hardware and software. This is the story of my first exposure to the convention madness that is called Fall COMDEX ‘96. (more…)

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The Top Ten Reasons AOL was Off-Line and the Advantages Plus, The real reason for the big Western Power Outage.
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aol, ldap