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copied!<p>You know there are products which help you with directory synchronization and user provisioning (google those terms)? Not invented here and all that, and you may have to justify the investment in the current climate, but developing and maintaining code for which there already is a commercial solution is not, let us say, always the most cost-effective way in the long run. </p> <p>Not all of the support eventing/provisioning, but they do support tracking changes and distributing them: it's not a big deal creating eventing solutions on top of those capabilities.</p> <p>Microsoft has the <a href="http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3522101" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Identity Integration Server</a> (MISS) which is being repackaged as part of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/ilm2007/default.mspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Identity Lifecycle Manager</a>. It was originally built on a more general meta/master data management product, but is workable. IBM has the <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246164.html?Open" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tivoli Directory Integrator</a> (but you need to keep up with the biyearly name changes!). Oracle has an <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/id_mgmt/oxp/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Oracle Identity Manager</a>, and Sun an <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity_mgr/index.xml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Identity Manager</a>. Most of these are leading products bought by the major players to fill a gap in their portfolios. </p> <p>Of course, these are enterprise-class products, meaning large & expensive, but generally pretty future-safe and extensible. If you don't need their full strength (yet!), you'll need to look at storing a copy for yourself. In that case, have you considered storing your replica of the last known AD tree using <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/id_mgmt/oxp/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AD LDS</a> (formerly AD/AM)? It's not in an optimum format for comparing differences, but a directory database will scale reasonably well, even the lightweight kind. </p>

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