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MIIS 2003 does not require Active Directory, and it does not extend the Active Directory schema. For MIIS 2003 to work in a warm standby configuration, Active Directory is required. See the technical overview for MIIS 2003 Planning for High Availability at http://microsoft.com/miis for more details.
