Active Directory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory] is [Microsoft]'s implementation of, among other things, [LDAP] services. Two approaches to AD work are: * through standard LDAP tools * through Microsoft's own utilities, which often involve extra-LDAP functionality. I like this [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_adsrh_tools.asp] reference to Microsoft's own AD Searches [[sic]] Tools. Note, though, that the previous page fails to mention ldifde and csvde, which, despite the appearance of their documentation [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/ldifde.asp] [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/CSVDE.asp], are available for Windows Server 2000. Also significant is schemadocfile [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnactdir/html/schemadoc.asp]. ---- [Category Glossary]