My company is developing an application that requires LDAP. We plan to use AD for this. I ran into ADAM last week and have been looking into this heavily to see if this will be a more secure solution.
We currently have a remote site that hosts our public web servers and we are connected to it via a T-1. We will have 2 DC's at our corp office, and im trying to figure out what we will need at our remote location for this web app. I figure we need at least one DC at our host site, because if the link goes down, we wont be able to authenticate users. Now the question is if we are going to need ADAM if we are already going to put a DC out at the host site.

Of course, my main concern is security. I realize that ADAM services run off a user instead of the system account.

Any thoughts?

What would you store in ADAM that would make it part of your solution? It
sounds like you want to authenticate Windows users, and ADAM requires a
domain controller to pass through authentication for these.

If you were going to authenticate a mix of Windows and ADAM users or wanted
to store some application data in an LDAP repository, then it seems like
ADAM would make good sense.

HTH,

Joe K.

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heavily to see if this will be a more secure solution.
im trying to figure out what we will need at our remote location for this
web app. I figure we need at least one DC at our host site, because if the
link goes down, we wont be able to authenticate users. Now the question is
if we are going to need ADAM if we are already going to put a DC out at the
host site.