Resources for Interoperability and Migration of Active Directory

At Tech Ed Europe, Microsoft's foremost European technology show, the company announced a range of new offerings that enable easier interoperability with Active Directory. The new offerings include the Active Directory Interoperability Program, which features the Active Directory Password Change Notification Service for use by independent software vendors (ISVs); a new third-party-developed OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003; and new third-party support for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

Read this white paper to find out more about the origins of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within Microsoft products and, specifically, the implementation of and conformance to the LDAPv3 Proposed Standard within Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003.

Read this white paper for an introduction to Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), one of the new capabilities of the fully integrated directory service available with Windows Server 2003.

The Technical Reference provides essential technical information about Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). It is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining a healthy ADAM Service as well as for Architects who want to optimize their applications for ADAM.

This series of webcasts for IT professionals outlines the planning, design, and implementation of a migration strategy from a legacy Windows environment to Windows Server 2003. Webcasts highlight tools, tactics, and technologies for migration, including topics such as Active Directory, line of business (LOB) applications, and upgrading to Exchange Server 2003.

This TechNet briefing covers trust relationships, the Active Directory Sizer tool, name resolution methods, migrating accounts from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003, directory and file replication in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Server 2003, and interoperation of system and group policy.

This TechNet Briefing covers how to integrate DNS and Active Directory, which enables your organization to deploy and gain the benefits of Active Directory while still maintaining any existing DNS infrastructure you may have.

Learn how ADFS can extend Web SSO to both IIS and non-Windows web servers.This session begins with a review of the problems and business costs of Identity Management as it relates to extending your network to external users for eBusiness. Next we consider how Identity Federation can solve these problems while substantially reducing risk and cost. The session concludes with an overview of ADFS functionality and the fundamental customer use cases it supports.

Read about how Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 enables the integration and management of identity information across multiple repositories, systems, and platforms.

Learn about a new capability called Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) to help to integrate applications with the directory service.

This document provides guidance for deploying the Active Directory directory service to support Exchange 2000 messaging services.

Get detailed information about upgrading and restructuring Active Directory forests in the following chapters of the Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit:

• Upgrading Windows NT 4.0 Domains to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
• Restructuring Windows NT 4.0 Domains to an Active Directory Forest
• Restructuring Active Directory Domains Between Forests
• Restructuring Active Directory Domains Within a Forest

Get best practices for planning and preparing for a Novell NetWare to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory migration as well as detailed step-by-step instructions for both staged and direct migrations.

Get steps to deploy the Active Directory service in a Windows NT to Windows 2000 upgrade.

Learn how to plan a migration from Windows NT 4.0 directory services to Windows 2000 Active Directory and decide whether to keep the same domain architecture or restructure the domain architecture.

Download the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) for an easy, secure, and fast way to either upgrade from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server Active Directory service or to restructure Active Directory domains between forests or within a forest.

This paper describes the approaches and technologies available for integrating identity stores across a heterogeneous environment. It also provides detailed implementation guidance for identity aggregation and synchronization between Microsoft Active Directory directory service forests, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1 (formerly iPlanet Directory Server), and Lotus Notes Release 5.0 using Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (MIIS 2003).