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Active Directory (AD) is a directory service created by Microsoft. It stores all information and settings for a deployment in a central database. AD allows administrators to assign policies, deploy and update software. AD networks can vary from a small installation with a few computers, users and printers to tens of thousands of users, many different network domains and large server farms spanning many geographical locations.

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A more efficient way of extracting a name from a string?

Here is some code that reads Active Directory to get a person's manager and parses the result for the managers name. It omits the remaining information. I was just wondering if there might be some mor …
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