RE: AD client for W98

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From: Frank Brown [MSFT] (fbrown_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:45:21 GMT

Thank you for posting your question.

Active Directory Features Supported

Windows 95/98-based and Windows NT 4.0-based clients lack many of the
features of Windows 2000 Professional that are related to Active Directory.
The Active Directory client extension is an upgrade or patch for Windows
95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0, which enables the following Active
Directory features:

Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). ADSI allows scripting to Active
Directory and provides a common programming API to Active Directory
programmers.

DFS fault tolerance client. This provides access to Windows 2000
distributed file system (DFS) fault tolerant and fail-over file shares
specified in Active Directory. In order to benefit from this new
functionality the computer object where the Client extension is installed
must exist in a Windows 2000 domain.

Active Directory Windows Address Book (WAB) property pages. These allow
users who have permission to change properties on user objects (for
example, phone number and address) by means of the user object pages, which
can be accessed by clicking the Start menu, and then pointing to Search and
For People. This also includes support for display specifiers that allow
rendering of new schema elements stored on the user object in Active
Directory.

NTLM version 2 authentication. The client extensions take advantage of the
improved authentication features available in NTLM version 2.

Active Directory Features Not Supported

Significant architectural advancements have been made in the Windows 2000
Professional client platform. They deliver functionality that the Active
Directory client extensions on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0
cannot deliver. Users can take advantage of these additional capabilities
by upgrading to Windows 2000 Professional. Note that the client extension
does not provide the following:

Kerberos support. The Active Directory client extension does not deliver
Kerberos support for Windows 95/98-based and Windows NT 4.0-based clients.

Group Policy or IntelliMirror support. The Active Directory client
extension does not deliver IntelliMirror® management technologies or
Windows 2000 Group Policy functionality.

IPSec or L2TP support. The Active Directory client extension does not
deliver advanced virtual private networking (VPN) protocols, like Internet
Protocol security (IPSec) or Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP).
SPN or mutual authentication. The Active Directory client extension does
not deliver Service Principal Name (SPN) or mutual authentication

Regards,

Frank Brown
Microsoft Small Business Server Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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