Thank you very much.
>Yes. More importantly, the SAM is for local accounts - it knows nothing about AD accounts. If your concern is with AD accounts you should work with AD.
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>>Hi,
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>>Please read the paragraph below and the answer my question (after the paragraph):
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>>Directories are an important though rarely mastered component of enterprise application development.
>>For the Windows® platform, Microsoft provides three primary directory platforms: Active Directory®
>>Domain Services, the local Security Account Manager (SAM) data store on every Windows computer,
>>and the relatively new Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services or AD LDS (which you may have
>>previously known as Active Directory Application Mode or simply ADAM). While most enterprise developers
>>know at least the basics of SQL programming, far fewer have experience programming directory services.
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>>Do I understand correctly that if I am mainly concerned with the Active Directory, I need to ignore the Security Account Manager (SAM)? Since, in my understanding, the SAM is something in every Windows computer.
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>>TIA
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