Microsoft® Active Directory™ directory service is a loosely coupled distributed system. As such, Active Directory can offer tremendous benefits in regard to remote access to data and the ability to perform updates on any replica. However, it is important to understand that replication in such a system can cause improperly designed applications to behave unpredictably. When designing an application that uses Active Directory, you need to understand version skew, partial updates, and collisions. This document details these issues in specific application scenarios.
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