Brad Price
ISBN: 0-782-14305-9
Paper
344 pages
September 2004

Active Directory is a Windows Server technology that stores information about a network's users and directories, making it easier for network administrators to configure, manage, and update their networks. Active Directory matured with the roll-out of Windows Server 2003; it's now more stable and economical, and is much more attractive to administrators who shied away from implementing it in the past.However, along with those improvements comes increased complexity for network administrators. Microsoft is dropping support for NT 4 at the end of 2003, forcing holdouts to migrate to Server 2003.