Administrative Autonomy and Security Isolation

Collaboration Services is a secure directory and free/busy synchronization solution. It has the following benefits compared to other directory synchronization solutions:

• No trusts, VPN tunnels and supplementary accounts between forests are required
• Opening directory access port (LDAP port) for outbound access to let other forest accounts query your directory and Exchange data is not required
• Provides full administrative autonomy. The administrator of each forest chooses which objects and data from their forest will be available in other forests, and vice versa
• All Collaboration Services communications between forests are encrypted and signed
• No security-related user data, such as security IDs (SIDs) or passwords is ever transmitted or stored anywhere

Learn More About Administrative Autonomy and Security Isolation

• Whitepaper: Best Practices for Designing a Secure Active Directory: Multi-org Exchange Edition
• Read the Product Datasheet