... Not Active Directory? environment, but without having to also take on Active Directory. All too often,standard Windows 2000 literature discusses new features only in the context of Active Directory ... because Active Directory has been its focus of Windows 2000, and Active Directory relies on a reliable networking infrastruc-ture. Quite simply, if there are TCP/IP problems there will be Active Directory www.syngress.com147_noAD_01 ... forsome of the Windows NT 4.0 server upgrades to Windows 2000 outside Active Directory. There are improvements in reliability, administration, security, and per-formance—all good news for standalone...