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On April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com Windows NT4-based domain were upgraded to a pre-release version of Windows 2000 Server and thus became the world’s first production Active Directory domain:
Thanks! I knew it managed account stuff, but I wasn’t sure why it was called that. It always sounded weirdly obtuse.
The name originates from the old X.500 Directory protocol which was used in early networks