One of Stephen's goals is to try to minimize and manage the differences and work toward a common goal. There are so many needs for both technologies. Synchronicity from NetVision is a step in the right direction to lessen those potentially politically sensitive issues. With Synchronicity all of the platforms can work together seamlessly and it's easy to manage passwords and other objects. It came to the point where the NT side was growing at such a rapid rate, and accounts were getting so cumbersome that we needed a solution that could address this as well as help with multiple user passwords.
Synchronicity is a non-intrusive solution.
This feature is very appealing to organizations like Commerce Bank. Synchronicity has the GUI interface of NWAdmin, and the IT staff was already familiar with this interface. You can install and uninstall, irregardless of whether it is up and running, and the functionality of the operating system is not affected. Synchronicity for NT fully integrates Windows NT server domains into NDS to provide a single point of administration for network managers. The non-intrusive functionality was the primary benefit, and secondarily, the fact that NDS for NT redirected the authentication request from an NT box to an NDS box.