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No, if you install Active directory. But, why bother if they are published?
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No, if you install Active directory. But, why bother if they are published?

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No, that's what AD does, it publishes information. &nbsp;However, you could create &nbsp;separate domains and place different departments in those domians so they are unaware of each other. &nbsp;A little kludgy, but it's a way to do it. &nbsp;Otherwise, stick with NT, or move to linux<br />
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No, that's what AD does, it publishes information.  However, you could create  separate domains and place different departments in those domians so they are unaware of each other.  A little kludgy, but it's a way to do it.  Otherwise, stick with NT, or move to linux

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The directory is an information store - in much the same way that the NT User database is an information store.<br />
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So, yes the users are published in Active Directory, but they aren't published there for the benefit of your users but so your domain can deal with all the objects involved.<br />
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By default users will have little or no access to the objects stored in the Directory, to see it requires that they have the administrative tools.
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The directory is an information store - in much the same way that the NT User database is an information store.

So, yes the users are published in Active Directory, but they aren't published there for the benefit of your users but so your domain can deal with all the objects involved.

By default users will have little or no access to the objects stored in the Directory, to see it requires that they have the administrative tools.

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I am insterested in upgrading my NT domain to Windows 2003. In the tests I have done though, it published all my users and groups to the Directory. I do not want to do this, my users have no need to know this information. Is there a way to prevent the users and groups from being published in the Directory? Thanks for any help in advance. 
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I am insterested in upgrading my NT domain to Windows 2003. In the tests I have done though, it published all my users and groups to the Directory. I do not want to do this, my users have no need to know this information. Is there a way to prevent the users and groups from being published in the Directory? Thanks for any help in advance. 

Publishing in Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).