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 more 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. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MOIR Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:31 AM To: [email protected] 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 only 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? -- Robert Moir Microsoft MVP for Windows Servers & Security Senior IT Systems Engineer Luton Sixth Form College Right vs. Wrong | Good vs. Evil God vs. the devil | What side you on? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
