Is the metadirectory dead?

摘要

Identity management: The one thing that gave Optimal an opening to become the only all-Microsoft virtual directory is the fact that Redmond has ignored this technology in favor of metadirectory technology - Microsoft Metadirectory Service, which later became Microsoft Identity Integration Server and which is now a part of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Management Server. All of these derived from Zoomit's VIA, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1999. Even though I've consistently stated that Virtual Directory Services were a necessary part of an identity management stack, Microsoft has chosen to try to build a stack with only a metadirectory. But now someone else has spoken up: "Let's be honest. The metadirectory is dead.