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…)

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