The fact of today enterprise environment, we will have multiple directory services - we are working on with one customer which would like to integrate with OpenLDAP.
Both AD and the OpenLDAP has its own defination of "identity", eg: Name, title, department, password +++ Thus, managing those become complex - users need to remember multiple logons with multiple passwords.
In response to this problem, Microsoft developed Microsoft Metadirectory Services to previde the syncronization. Now, it is called MIIS - Microsoft Identity Integration Server.
To further clarify, MIIS has two versions. IIFP (Identity Integration Feature Pack) is free for Windows 2003 Enterprise edition. It can integrate between multiple Active Directory forest.
The other one will need license and SQL. It provide metadirectory function that enable to synchronize, provision, deprovision identity information across a wide variety of directory services, include Novell E-directory, LDAP, Exchange 5.5, Samba, SAP and more...
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IIFP require also an SQL licence.
Thanks for the update. You are correct. SQL is needed using IIFP.
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