Re:Microsoft's Most Valuable Asset
by irq on Thursday November 22, 2012 @02:20AM
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> LDAP (which is essentially AD under the hood)
This is false. LDAP itself is nothing more than a protocol (that's what the P stands for). There are very popular implementations of this protocol (OpenLDAP being just one) but even they are not "AD under the hood".
AD = LDAP + Kerberos + Microsoft proprietary extensions
So if anything, under the hood of AD you will find LDAP, but not the other way around.
This is false. LDAP itself is nothing more than a protocol (that's what the P stands for). There are very popular implementations of this protocol (OpenLDAP being just one) but even they are not "AD under the hood".
AD = LDAP + Kerberos + Microsoft proprietary extensions
So if anything, under the hood of AD you will find LDAP, but not the other way around.