Basics of Active Directory
July 31st, 2011
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Active Directory:
Overview: Active Directory(AD) is a directory Service created by Microsoft. Active Directory provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up the organization’s network. Active Directory gives you out-of-the-box functionality needed to stores all information and settings for a deployment in a central database and allows administrators to assign policies, deploy and update software.
Active Directory uses a number of standardized protocols to provide a variety of network services, including:
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP, the industry standard directory access protocol, compatible with many management and query applications. Active Directory supports LDAPv3 and LDAPv2.
- Optional Kerberos-based authentication.
- DNS-based naming and other network information.
Active Directory Benefits:
- Integration with DNS: Â Active Directory uses the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS is an Internet standard service that translates human-readable computer names (such as mycomputer.microsoft.com) to computer-readable numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (four numbers separated by periods). Read more…