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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.capebreton.social/post/2509054

On April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com Windows NT4-based domain were upgraded to a pre-release version of Windows 2000 Server and thus became the world’s first production Active Directory domain:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is it called that? What’s the semantics behind it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a directory of users, contacts, settings and files that is actively updated in real time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

great explanation.

...so what's an Entra?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I knew it managed account stuff, but I wasn’t sure why it was called that. It always sounded weirdly obtuse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The name originates from the old X.500 Directory protocol which was used in early networks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Which part?