Organizations with fractured IT environments include companies cobbled together through mergers or acquisitions, companies whose IT organizations may have grown organically in a decentralized manner, and departments of public sector organizations that have been allowed to operate relatively autonomously. First, you have to form a cross-functional team to inventory how many light bulbs are in use across the company. Next, you must form a schema committee to name the light bulbs. You must also map the flow of each light bulb back to its authoritative sources. On the enterprise security front, authentication is the battle but authorization is the war.
Authentication lets companies determine who is accessing the resources on their networks.
Validating a user's identity is only the first step. It's even more important to determine what users are allowed to do once they get in. Windows 2000 rollout is one of the most important deployment initiatives most organizations will undertake in the next two years. An important design decision is whether to go with single or multiple Active Directory 'forests' for your production intranet. May 2000 Different strokes for different directory servers Directory servers are all different animals.