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What's New in Authorization Manager

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Important

Authorization Manager is available for use in the following versions of Windows: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It is deprecated as of Windows Server 2012 R2 and may be removed in subsequent versions.

With this version of Windows, several new features are available in Authorization Manager. These include:

Many improvements and changes to Authorization Manager have been made as well. Some of these are:

  • Improvements to the Authorization Manager Application Programming Interface (API), including optimizations of common functions and the introduction of simpler, faster versions of commonly used methods, such as AccessCheck.

  • LDAP queries are not limited to only user objects.

  • Additional events are recorded in the log if auditing is active.

  • The use of business rules and authorization rules is controlled by a registry setting. In this version of Windows, rules are disabled by default. In earlier versions of Windows rules were enabled by default.