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Page name

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"Windows Server domain" may not be the ideal name for this page. "Domain" by itself is ambiguous, but "Windows Server domain" isn't a widely used term. If someone can come up with something better please rename it. Rhobite 04:01, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

In my opinion a page should be called what it really should be called, and if the author of it calls it Windows Server domain, then so be it. Redirections were invented for a reason ;-)

Domains are always Active Directory?

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The article mentions that the domain uses Active Directory, but prior to Windows 2000 Server, there was a different domain system that did not use Active Directory. [Chapter 11 from Introducing Windows 2000 Server] says the following (emphasis added):

Windows NT domains worked best in small-sized and medium-sized environments. Administrators of large environments were forced to partition their network into multiple domains interconnected with trusts. Microsoft Windows 2000 Server introduces Active Directory to replace domain functionality.

In essence, saying that domains use Active Directory ignores the history that caused AD to be created. --TehBuzzy 17:49, 23 May 2006 (UTC) This is not the case, as computer could very well participate in a Windows Server Domain but belong to a different type of authentication service it would not "have" to be included in the active directiry. Hoovie 03:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Workgroups

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I think there should be some mention of workgroups or at least a See Also link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup as if a computer were to participate in a windows domain, it would be excluded from participating in a workgroup. Hoovie 03:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WHAT IS THE FUNTION OF WINDOWS DOMAIN

Centralised authentication, mainly. AND STOP SHOUTING.81.23.50.232 (talk) 05:46, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]