<quote who="Pierangelo Masarati">
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
"Fast Bind" to me refers to an extended operation supported by Active Directory.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa367028.aspx "Concurrent bind, also known as fast bind, enables an application to determine if multiple users have valid IDs and passwords and if their accounts are enabled. By using concurrent binding, the application can request multiple bind operations by way of a single LDAP connection.
Unlike a normal LDAP bind, a concurrent bind does not determine a user group association or build a security token; it only determines if the user has a valid ID and password. This enables the concurrent bind to complete in a fraction of the time of a normal bind."
Yes: yet another limitation of AD sold as an exiting feature, but nothing more than the old simple bind. So let's keep using the right name.
Good. I'll forget I ever heard/read it. ;-)
Gavin.