New tools help ease migration, monitoring
Directory vendors and third-party players offer a variety of add-ons.

Product roundup: Third parties to the rescue
A look at third-party directory management tools for Novell Directory Services eDirectory and Microsoft's Active Directory Services. Includes our product scorecard, where you can see our likes and dislikes.

At a glance: Vendor product info
Learn more about the products that interest you with this interactive list.
     (requires Flash)

Interactive Buyer's Guide chart
Check our database to compare which directory managment products will work best for you.

Directory standards see renewed vendor action
Novell, Microsoft propose XML-based plans.
Network World, 04/02/01.

Microsoft adding critical function to Active Directory
Next version of Active Directory will allow extensions in the schema to be deleted.
Network World Fusion, 05/03/01.

The next big thing
I don’t know how I missed this, but it has become obvious to me that the next big application for directory-enabled services is in the management of networks, devices, services, servers and host platforms.
Network World Directories Newsletter, 08/01/01.

Has Active Directory won the war?
I don't often comment on articles that appear in competing magazines, but an amazing paragraph about directory services in an otherwise ho-hum review of the recent fiscal activities of networking hardware vendors really set me off.
Network World Directories Newsletter, 05/28/01.

Directory Services Expert provides real-time alert function for NetWare 5.1
Novell has released NetWare 5.1, incorporating Novell Directory Services Version 8. Now, leading NDS utilities are also releasing new versions.
Network World Directory Newsletter, 02/16/00.