Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...

Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications. Technology Toolbox: ...

There's a lot that is good and lot that is bad about directory services. They have brought a level of consistency, logic, and organization to network administration and programming that was impossible ...

Last issue’s mention of Active Directory, Active Directory/Application Mode (ADAM) and Microsoft Identity Information Server (MIIS) reminded me that I’d been meaning to draw your attention to some ...

Microsoft's stand-alone version of Active Directory has gained some modest traction in its eight-month lifespan. Called Active Directory Application Mode, or AD/AM, the stand-alone directory was first ...

Microsoft late Wednesday night shipped the first public beta of its Active Directory “light” and will release the final code of the application-specific directory by the end of the month, according to ...

At the RSA Conference 2006 this week, Microsoft announced a few major changes to Longhorn Server, which is the next operating system in the Windows Server family. The announced changes are coming as ...