The user logs on only once to Windows NT and can access D 3 resources like any other NT resource as specified by the administrator. There is no double logon or proprietary security mechanism. Manages the distributed file system. There is an unlimited number of files. Each file can have up to four terabytes of data per file section, dictionary, data level, overflow space or index.
Items can contain up to two gigabytes of data.
Item IDs can have up to 249 characters and may contain non-Latin characters. Any item can contain binary data. Files can be located on any disk, partition or directory. The physical location of data is transparent to the application because resource finding is provided dynamically by the Microsoft Name Service. Hashed file access for efficient direct data retrieval.