3. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.

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Active Directory is a LDAP compatible directory service and supported by various third party applications like Novell DirXML, and Atlassian Crowd.
Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) is one of the options you can use to act as an intermediary between two directories (including directories used by SAP, Domino, etc).



MIIS manages information by retrieving identity information from the connected data sources and storing the information in the connector space as connector space objects or CSEntry objects. The CSEntry objects are then mapped to entries in the metaverse called metaverse objects or MVEntry objects. This architecture allows data from dissimilar connected data sources to be mapped to the same MVEntry object. All back-end data is stored in Microsoft SQL Server.
Versions
 Zoomit Via (pre 1999)
 Microsoft Metadirectory Server [MMS] (1999–2003)
 Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Enterprise Edition [MIIS] (2003-2009)
 Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Feature Pack [IIFP] (2003-2009)
 Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Server 2007 ILM (2007-2010)
 Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 FIM [CR0] (Current)

Supported Data Sources
MIIS 2003, Enterprise Edition, includes support for a wide variety of identity repositories including the following.
 Network operating systems and directory services: Microsoft Windows NT, Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode, IBM Directory Server, Novell eDirectory, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), SunONE/iPlanet Directory, X.500 systems and other network directory products
 E-mail: Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007
 Application: PeopleSoft, SAP AG products, ERP1, telephone switches PBX, XML- and Directory Service Markup Language DSML-based systems
 Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, IBM Informix, dBase, IBM DB2
 File-based: DSMLv2, LDIF, Comma-separated values CSV, delimited, fixed width, attribute value pairs

Yes. Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) is used to connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services (including directories used by SAP, Domino, etc).

Yes We can Connect, by using dirxml and LDAP