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Article: Microsoft helps lessen risk of moving to Active Directory; Licenses tool to smooth conversion from domains.(Microsoft licenses software from Mission Critical Software to help Windows NT 4.0 users migrate to Active Directory)(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- June 14, 1999
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Microsoft helps lessen risk of moving to Active Directory
Licenses tool to smooth conversion from domains.
By John Fontana
Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft last week finally strung a safety net for those feeling uneasy about walking the tightrope between NT domains and Active Directory.
What NT 4.0 users face in moving to Windows 2000 is the perilous no-going-back task of converting and consolidating domains into Microsoft's new distributed directory service - in a production setting. The fear is that if the Active Directory implementation fails, critical user and group information, permissions and Exchange mailboxes would be lost.
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