LDAP Protocols and Active Directory

Paper Summary:

This paper explains and analyzes LDAP technology in detail and provides an overview of its history. The writer discusses how it works, its uses and its limitations. The dominating technology innovation to the LDAP, Active Directory service, was introduced by Microsoft with Windows 2000. AD represents a virtual and hoped for solution to the traditional challenges of LDAP servers. The paper concludes that the greatest benefit that AD provides today is not as a competitor with LDAP but as an innovator and enhancer of the network protocol technology thereof. This paper contains a table.

Outline:
What is LDAP?
How Does LDAP Work?
How is LDAP Used?
What is the Relationship of LDAP to Networking Systems?
Overview of Active Directory (AD), a Microsoft Technology
Relative Comparison of LDAP Technology with AD

From the Paper:

"LDAP's were originally integrated as what are known as gateway servers, whereby the LDAP gateway handles information transfer that formerly the client had to process through their own protocols, without access to any others, thus clarifying the general benefit and function of LDAP as interoperability. With the development of LDAP, it became clear that the original X.500 DSA was too cumbersome a technology for the streamlined access that LDAP's were providing. Thus, LDAP absorbed many of the processes of X.500, and departed from X.500 thereof, achieving the technology to run independently, providing streamlined protocol service to clients thereof, in 1994."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Industry Reactions Mixed About Novell/Microsoft." eWeek (Nov 3, 2006): pNA.
• Microsoft Corporation. "Active Directory LDAP Compliance." October 2003: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/c/8/dc83e0b8-fc2c-4af4-bd27-45b5963ad98d/AD%20LDAP%20Compliance.doc
• Petreley, Nicholas. "DOWN TO THE WIRE.(importance of LDAP)(Technology Information). InfoWorld 21.27 (July 5, 1999): p74.
• Wilcox, Mark. "Managing Groups in LDAP.(Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)." Web Techniques 5.5 (May 2000): p101.

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