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:
Why is it called that? What’s the semantics behind it?
It’s a directory of users, contacts, settings and files that is actively updated in real time
Thanks! I knew it managed account stuff, but I wasn’t sure why it was called that. It always sounded weirdly obtuse.
The name originates from the old X.500 Directory protocol which was used in early networks
great explanation.
…so what’s an Entra?