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April 9, 1999 - the world's first production active directory domain

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.capebreton.social/post/2509054

On April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com Windows NT4-based domain were upgraded to a pre-release version of Windows 2000 Server and thus became the world’s first production Active Directory domain:

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Why is it called that? What’s the semantics behind it?
- It's a directory of users, contacts, settings and files that is actively updated in real time
  
  great explanation.
  
  ...so what's an Entra?
  
  Thanks! I knew it managed account stuff, but I wasn’t sure why it was called that. It always sounded weirdly obtuse.
- Which part?

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