Talking Identity

Is AD really the dominant Identity Store out there?

By Nishant Kaushik on July 16, 2008 10:44 AM

James McGovern has challenged my position that applications should not be written to go directly against AD. And he got the backing of Jackson Shaw in this argument. James says: If pretty much every Fortune 500 enterprise has Active Directory,...

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To AD or not to AD

By Nishant Kaushik on July 8, 2008 12:35 PM

Ashraf Motiwala has called me out for saying that the way applications are supporting AD directly as the identity store is by using Virtual Directory, both in a comment on my post, and on his blog. I guess in my...

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Getting the Last Word In on Metadirectories

By Nishant Kaushik on July 7, 2008 2:04 PM

I doubt it. I doubt that there will be a last word on metadirectories for a long time to come. Technology that works has a way of sticking around, even when they have outlived their purpose, and are forced into...

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