Integration with X.500
True integration with an X.500 directory can be extremely hard to achieve. There are multiple reasons for this. First, there are not many X.500 directories in production today. This is because the X.500 standard is cumbersome to deploy and manage. Second, the Directory Access Protocol requires a lot of overhead and is difficult to configure.
Consequently, one of the best ways to integrate with an X.500 directory is to find an X.500 directory that supports LDAP and that uses LDAP as the protocol for reading and writing data between Active Directory and the X.500 directory. This type of directory architecture has been used for the past several years as LDAP has gained more popularity. Without exception, all the major ...
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