9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Active Directory first-hand: 0 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We moved off of ActiveDirectory not too long ago.”
regret · production · supliminal · 2026-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've struggled to get AD to work correctly with older PC's. We run CNCs with Win 98.”
regret · production · xupybd · 2021-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we implemented AD in the year 2000... So we're stuck with it.”
regret · production · 18 yr · tatersolid · 2018-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced all our AD servers with SAMBA4, so much more reliable and while AD/LDAP is still a nightmare of an architecture”
regret · production · mrmondo · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I usually have to commit large changes in Active Directory in production environments”
neutral · production · mihemihe · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“corporate apps are increasingly tied into AD for authentication.”
neutral · production · alephNullplus1 · 2022-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These are the services we used.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a bunch of systems that all work with AD, it's really a solved problem in a Windows based environment.”
neutral · production · kyriakos · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“active directory based logons (with ssh keys for those who want them)”
neutral · production · isostatic · 2018-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?