The origins of LDAP begin with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva. ITU began setting email standards which required a directory of names (and other information) that could ...

Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...

Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise environment. These services provide a database for central account management for both user and computer, as well as a framework for ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

Directory Services provides a central place to store users and passwords for corporate and enterprise users. Here's how to use it on macOS. Many enterprises today have a need for a central place to ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise ...