CXO Definition. A CXO is a top executive that has chief in their title â this could be the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer, chief technology officer, chief people officer, chief experience officer, chief procurement officer, and so on. CXO Staffs CXOs!
Active Directory is Microsoft's trademarked directory service, an integral part of the Windows 2000 architecture.
In Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, the directory service is named Active Directory. In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the directory service is named Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). The rest of this topic refers to Active Directory, but the information is also applicable to AD DS.