pse take me off your list, thx
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From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The answer to this one is of course it depends.
>
> At first blush it sounds like a single threaded app. Depending on the
> vendor, this may be the best/safest thing to do. :)
>
> As for best practices. I don't think there are any best practices for how
> many domains you should pull data from at a time. It would again depend
> entirely on the app and what it is supposed to be doing and the dangers
> exposed in doing it.
>
> For a "relatively" fast application that works well in single and
> multidomain environments I could see cases where it is better to pull from
> the GC or better to set up a thread pool and pull from x domains at once or
> a combination. Certainly the thread pool solutions are the m ore scalable
> solutions but they are also the much harder to do right and the more costly
> solutions. Most customers chose apps on how cheap they are first, then later
> they start to realize the shortcomings that made them cheaper.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MOIR
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:31 AM
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> Subject: [ActiveDir] AD integration
>
> Just a quick question. Is anyone aware of any "best practice"
> documentation of how a product ought to integrate with AD (e.g. to pull
> out user data for its own use).
>
> Failing that, can anyone comment on what they think of a model that can
> on ly pull data out of one domain at a time so for a >1 domain forest
> needs to make a connection to each domain in turn, pull down that
> information and then load it into SQL server. Am I crazy in thinking
> that anyone following this model has probably just found out that their
> old NT4 domain integration code "kinda works" and did the bare minimum
> tidying up before halting any further work?
>
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