What was the Cisco-Microsoft original directory services announcement about?
In May 1997, Microsoft and Cisco announced that: Cisco would adopt Active Directory, Cisco will implement Active Directory on various UNIX platforms, Cisco and Microsoft would jointly extend and enhance Active Directory to support network service modeling, provisioning and administration and add user-based policies Through the integration of Cisco IOS software with Microsoft Active directory, Cisco is simplifying the access to, and use, of advanced Cisco IOS networking features A key benefit of this collaboration is that network resources can be as easily managed in the same unified way as customer’s Enterprise resources using an extensible, rich user interface framework and Active Directory technologies. All aspects of managing any of these resources are tightly integrated, simplifying their administration and maintenance and ensuring scalability and reusability. This collaboration will extend Active Directory so that it can support network service modeling, provisioning and administr
