Out of Scope

This document is designed to guide the architect through the process of designing the core implementation for Active Directory. Its scope has therefore been limited so that it does not cover the following areas:

  • Active Directory/Application Mode (AD/AM), which is a lightweight implementation of Active Directory, sometimes set up for use by individual applications.

  • Migration from, co-existence with, or interoperation with non-Microsoft directory services.

  • Migration from implementations earlier than Windows Server 2008. There are, however, some design considerations involving Windows 2000 server components.

  • Federated implementations in which multiple corporations are joined together.

  • Multi-tenant considerations in which multiple companies ...

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