Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday plans to announce its new Identity Integration Server 2003, a stand-alone identity management server meant for large enterprise deployments. The new offering is Microsoft's first real jump into the ID management market and comes at a time when a gaggle of vendors are all fighting for sales and name recognition in the emerging space. The key feature of MIIS will be its ability to allow Active Directory to communicate with other LDAP-enabled directories, such as Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Sun ONE Identity Server and Novell Inc.'s eDirectory. MIIS is essentially a major overhaul of what was previously known as Microsoft MetaDirectory Services and will use Microsoft's own SQL Server as the database for user information.
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