Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Directory Services Manuale Di Manutenzione

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Chapter 3  MeetingPlace Directory Services Concepts 

MeetingPlace Directory Services System Manager’s Guide Latitude Communications

Currently, MeetingPlace Directory Services interacts with the 
following directory servers:

Microsoft Active Directory – allows you to store, access 

and manipulate organizational information about users and 
resources. It is a vital component of Windows 2000 and 
enables you to manage all elements of a networked 
environment (computers, groups, users, policies and other 
user-defined objects). 

Netscape LDAP Directory Server – unlike an application 

directory such as Microsoft Exchange, Netscape is a general 
purpose LDAP directory that stores, publishes and centrally 
manages users and network resources.

Lightweight Data Access Protocol (LDAP), is a directory 
services protocol that runs atop TCP/IP. It is an easily deployed, 
efficient, and highly functional protocol that allows you to search 
dynamically throughout a system to retrieve data. Typically, it is 
used among organizations to structure disparate e-mail, network, 
and human resource databases so that directory information such 
as an address, resource or department number can be obtained.

The LDAP directory is designed as a simple “tree” hierarchy 
known as a Directory Information Tree (DIT). This hierarchy 
provides a method for logically grouping and subgrouping similar 
information together.