Marketing speech ;) .. but money definitely has been changed hands. Active Directory has its own share of problems, but the benefit of having a central locatio

Marketing speech ;) .. but money definitely has been changed hands. Active Directory has its own share of problems, but the benefit of having a central location for policies which enforce them on the connected machines is a security plus despite the addition of attack surface by itself. While I first thought that AD integration regards group policy looks like a hard architecture mismatch, it is interestingly not. Take the Windows Registry with millions of keys vs. the thousands of etc files and their thousand sub settings.