Chapter 24. Case Study: Netscape Communications Corporation

• Overview of the Organization

• Directory Drivers

• Directory Service Design

• Directory Service Deployment

• Directory Service Maintenance

• Leveraging the Directory Service

• Summary and Lessons Learned

• Further Reading

• Looking Ahead

Part VI, Case Studies, shows how organizations actually plan for and deploy directory services. The case study presented in this chapter represents a real-life directory deployment with which the authors had direct experience. The other two case studies (presented in Chapter 25, Case Study: A Large Multinational Enterprise, and Chapter 26, Case Study: An Enterprise with an Extranet) are fictional, and they represent the authors' concept of how a directory service could be deployed to meet the needs of such organizations.

By presenting these three case studies, we hope to show how a directory can be applied within several different organizational settings. Some aspects of each organization depicted in these case studies will probably match those of your own organization, although no one organization will match in all respects. Use these case studies as starting points for developing a directory strategy for your own needs.