Re: ADAM on W2K

From: noplay (noplay_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:15:03 -0700

Thanks everyone for your help with this.

One more quick question, does microsoft have libraries for an LDAP client?
In other words, if I were to access some other Directory software that
exposed a standard LDAP interface, is there a Microsoft library that I can
use to access it?

Thanks again for your help

"Dmitri Gavrilov [MSFT]" wrote:

> Surely there are marketing purposes :)
>
> I can only speak of technical reasons. There are some system calls that ADAM
> makes that are not available on w2k. One example that I used to give is the
> AuthZ library. But I heard it was actually ported to w2k not so long ago.
> But there are other calls that are not ported. We could code around I
> suppose, but... See above.
>
> And, of course, there are test resource limitations that are always present.
> Testing on yet another platform basically increases our test matrix.
> Especially if we need to test on multiple SPs and such.
>
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> Dmitri Gavrilov
> SDE, Active Directory Core
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> "Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)" <joseph.e.kaplan@removethis.accenture.com> wrote
> in message news:uEgDAuGsEHA.3076@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I know that ADAM is designed to use the LogonUser API to authenticate
> > Windows users in addition to ADAM users. LogonUser can only be called by
> > SYSTEM level accounts (those that have Act as part of the operating system
> > privilege) under 2000, but can be called by normal users on XP and 2003
> > server. Since ADAM is designed to run using low privileged service
> > accounts, this would not work in 2000.
> >
> > I'm sure there are more substantial reasons too, but that came to mind as
> a
> > technical one. Dmitri may chime in with some other stuff if he wants
> since
> > he knows better than anyone.
> >
> > Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there are marketing reasons. ADAM is
> free
> > with Windows Server (i.e. no additional license fee to use it), but I'm
> sure
> > MS would rather use that feature to sell more licenses of 2K3 than to
> > encourage people to stay on Win2K.
> >
> > Joe K.
> >
> > "noplay" <noplay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:414E4657-B059-4258-A12F-AD33FD1922E8@microsoft.com...
> > > Any reason why in particular? Just curious, .NET 1.1 runs on Windows
> 2000
> > > Server and it is new technology.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help
> > >
> > > "Chriss3 [MVP]" wrote:
> > >
> >
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