>Does anybody know if there is a test/demo version of Active Directory? Or some way to test Active Directory functionality without having Active Directory?
I remember in the past, MS offered online "playpens" for some of their software (Visual Studio?) but Google gets no relevant hits for ["active directory" online demo].
So, unless you can find someone willing to let you test against their AD domain, you'll have to set up your own.
- MS has 120-day eval downloads of Server 2008 R2
- Samba 4 running on Linux apparently supports/emulates AD
Regards. Al
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