Directory Independence

I get all the best topics! I attended a session today about some future functionality in Domino. The idea is to provide an option to store all the person documents in an external LDAP directory, such as Active Directory. This is different to the secondary directory I talked about before (already in the product).

Initially user groups are likely to stay in the Notes NAB, but as with all early development, details are scarce and the plans are hazy. The presenters took us through some early code and it looks like the mechanisms to find the external directory servers are fairly primitive so far (basically there is a single DNS entry that defines a specific directory server), so it will be a while before this is robust and business ready. Great direction though - and if we can remove yet another directory from our environment we can start to think about less complex (and cheaper!) directory synchronisation tools