Active Directory, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 6Ben Gilbert 4Steve Ballmer 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Active Directory comes up
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 47:02 David Rosenthal So at a certain point along the way, you get to, well, I want to say the Holy Trinity, but I think there are more than three pieces of this, but the real killer suite in enterprises, which is Windows, Windows Server, Active Directory,…
- ▶ 47:29 David Rosenthal You know, your users, they do their email on Outlook, which is part of Office, which runs on Windows, which uses Exchange, which uses Active Directory.
- ▶ 49:03 Steve Ballmer Because remember, you needed Active Directory to manage, you know, file shares, to manage, um, uh, printers.
- ▶ 1:32:21 Steve Ballmer You need an AD account, an Exchange account, it's exact, Windows.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:46 David Rosenthal So, Ben, if you've ever heard of these now sort of strange-sounding Microsoft products, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Dynamics, SharePoint.
- ▶ 1:41:58 Ben Gilbert It all has Active Directory that syncs across everything.
- ▶ 1:42:02 Ben Gilbert In doing all this research, it seemed to me that once a enterprise adopted Active Directory,
- ▶ 1:42:36 Ben Gilbert Oh, we got you covered, and hey, it works with Active Directory.
- ▶ 1:44:49 David Rosenthal Uh, and then you were talking about Active Directory.
- ▶ 1:44:51 David Rosenthal That led to Active Directory of, oh, okay, well, now you've got your whole database architecture running on Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:45:23 David Rosenthal It's called Active Directory.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:05:50 Ben Gilbert And all of this stuff is pretty out of scope for this episode, including all the software systems you would need to build for the enterprise, like Windows NT Server and Exchange and SQL Server and Active Directory, like the classic mid-two…