What is Active Directory?

Written by Afshin Haghighi
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 06:21
What is Active Directory? Active Directory is a distributed directory service, special-purpose database. That is included with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Active Directory is based on Domain Name System (DNS) and lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Active Directory clients use DNS and LDAP to locate and access any type of resource on the network. Integrated with Active Directory are many of the applications and services that previously required a separate directory and User id/password to be managed for each application or service. To view rest of this section, please login or register.. \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| \|\| Related Articles Installing Active Directory Using the Network or Backup Media Installing Active Directory Using an Answer File Installing Active Directory What is Active Directory? New Visual Tutorial Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 2001 Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Show/Hide comments Write comment Show/Hide comment form You must be logged in to a comment. Please register if you do not have an account yet.
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