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Team System - WHY Active Directory?

Hey Microsoft... WTF? What is the deal with forcing companies to have Active Directory deployed to use Team Foundation Server? Why not just use ADAM and make it transparent to the deployment process?

Suddenly, it makes the whole concept much less appealing.

Posted: Sep 13 2004, 07:59 PM by interscape | with 6 comment(s)

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Jerry Dennany said:

So, make your team foundation server an AD DC. If you are small enough to not have an Active Directory, then you are small enough to run your DC and Team Foundation Server on the same system.
# September 13, 2004 11:14 PM

Frans Bouma said:

(First: the flickering annoying add at the left of this blog almost stopped me from reading any further, very annoying)

In one way I can see why: it solves the problem of credentials. Versioning systems have a problem that they need credentials for every user to be able to work with the sourcecode. You can only use already known users if you can hook into the domain the users are in.

I'm no windows domain expert, so I'm not sure if it's easy to check from a normal server if a user is in a domain and what his credentials are (I think htey want to manage it from AD, as it is targeted at LARGE companies, think 100's of developers). If it is, then it is weird that they require a DC.

Jerry: if you're small enough not to have an AD, you're too small for TS and you're better of with systems like Vault or subversion (free)
# September 14, 2004 4:04 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Had to put that jab in there, didn't you Frans? Couldn't just be civil. I think you'd find any excuse to take a potshot at me. Obviously my first concern was whether or not my Products rotator annoyed you.
# September 14, 2004 4:11 AM

Rob Caron said:

Please understand that some of the requirements and workarounds on http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton are particular to this CTP release and don't necessarily reflect what we plan to ship at RTM. I can't recall if requiring an AD domain is just a requirement for this CTP release or not, but I think it is. CTP releases are just a snapshot of the current state of the product. Some limitations exist due to code that hasn't been written yet. This particular release is more representative of the state of the product earlier this summer.
# September 14, 2004 4:20 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Oh ok. Cool. Thanks Rob.
# September 14, 2004 4:21 AM

Frans Bouma said:

"Had to put that jab in there, didn't you Frans? Couldn't just be civil. I think you'd find any excuse to take a potshot at me. Obviously my first concern was whether or not my Products rotator annoyed you."
Sorry mate, I just wanted to mention that it was annoying. I didn't know it was illustrating a product you sold. It was right at the left of the textbox flickering next to what I was typing, so it's distracting a lot.
# September 14, 2004 12:19 PM