Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Application Mode

Service Pack 1 for Active Directory Application Mode—a component of integrated directory services supported in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2—is now available from the Download Center.

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

Explore new and important features with this 75-page guide, which steps you through installation, setup, and management tasks.

Get an overview of Active Directory in Application Mode in this downloadable presentation and learn about some of the high-level scenarios for its use.

Find answers to questions about Active Directory in Application Mode security, users, partitions, and more.

Understand the essential concepts of the core components, architecture, protocols, and security features in ADAM with this preview draft of the Technical Reference for administrators and system architects.

Learn how to bundle Active Directory Application Mode in your application's setup program so that you can provide dedicated LDAP directory services to a directory-enabled application.

This document discusses technological comparisons, usage scenarios, and benefits associated with Active Directory to ADAM Synchronizer, a new feature of Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) that synchronizes data from an Active Directory forest to a configuration set of an ADAM instance.

Children's Hospital deployed a platform-independent directory service based on Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode. Children's also implemented Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 to automatically synchronize data between systems. As a result, identity information is accurate and up-to-date, helping ensure compliance with regulatory legislation. In addition, manual data management has been reduced by 75 percent, freeing administrators to focus on value-added development activities.

FileHold Systems, developer of document management software, used Microsoft technologies, including the Active Directory service, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Authorization Manager (AzMan), to create FileHold'06. The product expedites enterprise system deployment and integration with the existing IT infrastructure without duplicating users.

This case study documents how a large U.S.-based manufacturing conglomerate has been able to streamline authentication procedures for users, simplify the deployment of new applications and solutions across the enterprise, and reduce the number of calls to its help desk, using Active Directory Application Mode as its Enterprise Directory.

Europe's largest pharmaceutical company, sanofi-aventis, deployed Active Directory Application Mode and Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 to manage access to its extranet portal for clinical information sharing as well as other key applications.