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Active Directory Client Extensions for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Download Available

Time: 07:28 EST/12:28 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

Thanks Gabriele. Microsoft has developed extensions for the Windows� 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT� 4.0 operating systems that allow those client platforms to take advantage of features provided by the Windows 2000 Active DirectoryTM service. These client extensions were developed for customers who wish to deploy Windows 2000 Server in environments with Windows 95-, Windows 98-, and Windows NT 4-based client workstations. 1.48 MB.

Windows 9x- and Windows NT 4-based clients lack many of the features of Windows 2000 Professional that are related to Active Directory. The Active Directory client extension is an upgrade or patch for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0, which enables the following Active Directory features:

Site awareness. This includes the ability to log on to the domain controller that is closest to the client in the network and the ability to change passwords on any Windows 2000-based domain controller, instead of the primary domain controller (PDC).
Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). ADSI allows scripting to Active Directory and provides a common programming API to Active Directory programmers.
DFS fault tolerance client. This provides access to Windows 2000 distributed file system (DFS) fault tolerant and fail-over file shares specified in Active Directory.
Active Directory Windows Address Book (WAB) property pages. These allow users who have permission to change properties on user objects (for example, phone number and address) by means of the user object pages, which can be accessed by clicking the Start menu, and then pointing to Search and For People. This also includes support for display specifiers that allow rendering of new schema elements stored on the user object in Active Directory.
NTLM version 2 authentication. The client extensions take advantage of the improved authentication features available in NTLM version 2.