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    Bringing Active Directory to Riordan Manufacturing

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    A 4 page continuation of an earlier proposal discussing implementing Active Directory at Riordan Manufacturing. The purpose here is to further develop the ideas of that proposal and to identify groups that will be used individually and nested with others. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

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    This is a continuation of an earlier proposal discussing implementing Active Directory at Riordan Manufacturing. The purpose here is to further develop the ideas of that proposal and to  identify groups that will be used individually and nested with others. Active Directorys Origin Microsofts Active Directory is based on X.500 or a  subset of it. The X.500 standard was ratified in 1988, and updated in 1993 and 1997. Seemingly ancient by todays pace of change, X.500 still is the leading  directory protocol. "The core of the X.500 model is a distributed database, which contains useful information about an object" (Chacon, 1999; p. 46), including information about its attributes.  With proper permission, people and programs "can read or modify information in the database ... The X.500 term for the entire distributed database is the Directory Information Base (DIB), and  its distributed components are Directory System Agents (DSA)" (Chacon, 1999; p. 46). X.500 is complex and resource-intensive, features that likely have prevented it  from becoming the world leader in directory protocol. "A subset of X.500, called Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), is helping to break through this impasse. Ultimately, X.500s greatest role  may be that it was responsible for the implementation and character of LDAP" (Chacon, 1999; p. 46). Microsoft Active Directory It was not  until the release of Windows NT 5.0 that Microsoft made its Active Directory service commercially available (Aden and Stanard, 1999). As demonstrated in the earlier proposal, Active Directory is  built on the concept of domains, which gained it some negative publicity in its first years because of domain unwieldiness in earlier versions of NT. Chacon (1999) holds that 

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