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<TITLE>Comparing Microsoft's Active Directory to Novell's NDS Version 8</TITLE>
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Active Directory, Active Directory Services Interfaces, ADSI, NDS, Novell Directory Service, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP, Domain Name System, DNS, Global Catalog, GC, Public Key Infrastructure, PKI.">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="With Novell's release of Netware Version 5.1 and Novell Directory Service Version 8, Microsoft is asked frequently to compare the Active Directory service of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server to NDS. For reasons outlined in this white paper, Microsoft believes that Active Directory will meet the customer requirements of a multipurpose directory service much better than NDS. This makes Active Directory the best long-term directory service.">