active directory

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active directory - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Active Directory
  
     <operating system> A directory service from Microsoft Corporation
     , similar in concept to Novell Netware Directory Services (NDS)
     , that also integrates with the user
     organisation's DNS structure and is interoperable with
     LDAP.  Active Directory is included in Windows 2000.
  
     (2000-03-28)