Active Directory - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Active Directory: Encyclopedia - Active Directory
Active Directory (codename Cascade) is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Active Directory: Encyclopedia Ii - Active Directory - Structure
Active Directory - Objects. An Active Directory (AD) structure is a hierarchical framework of objects. The objects fall into three broa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Multi-master Replication: Encyclopedia Ii - Multi-master Replication - Implementations
Multi-master replication - Active Directory. One of the more prevalent of multi-master replication implementations is Microsoft's Activ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia - Windows 2000
Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K, W2K or Windows NT 5.0) is a preemptible and interruptible, graphical, business-oriented operatin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ad Infinitum: Encyclopedia - Ad Infinitum
Ad infinitum is a Latin phrase meaning "to infinity." In context, it usually means "continue forever," and thus can be used to describe a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Citrix Systems: Encyclopedia - Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems NASDAQ: CTXS is a U.S. high technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in the UK an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ad: Encyclopedia - Ad
AD or ad may stand for: .ad, the ccTLD (Internet Top Level Domain) for Andorra AD, the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code for Andorra A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appletalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Appletalk - Protocols
AppleTalk - AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol. AARP resolves AppleTalk addresses to physical layer, usually MAC, addresses. It is f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ntfs: Encyclopedia Ii - Ntfs - Internals
In NTFS, everything that has anything to do with a file (file name, creation date, access permissions and even contents) is stored as met...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Directory: Encyclopedia Ii - Directory - The Folder Metaphor
The name folder, presenting an analogy to the file folder used in offices, is common on some operating systems such as Mac OS and, increa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novell Netware: Encyclopedia Ii - Novell Netware - History
Novell NetWare - Early years. Netware was based on the consulting work by SuperSet Software, a group founded by the friends Drew Major,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samba Software: Encyclopedia Ii - Samba Software - Name Origins
The name samba comes from inserting two vowels into the name of the standard protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cairo Operating System: Encyclopedia Ii - Cairo Operating System - Progress
Despite its near-mythical status in the computer industry, all of the Cairo technologies are now available except one. RPC shipped in Win...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Certified Professional: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Certified Professional - Certification Programs
Microsoft Certified Professional - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (or MCSE) is the best-kno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ldap Data Interchange Format: Encyclopedia Ii - Ldap Data Interchange Format - Tools That Employ Ldif
The OpenLDAP utilities include tools for exporting data from LDAP servers to LDIF (ldapsearch), importing data from LDIF to LDAP servers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dns Zone Transfer: Encyclopedia Ii - Dns Zone Transfer - Operational Problems
There are several interoperability and operational problems that occur with zone transfer. DNS zone transfer - Serial number changes. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Dns: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Dns - Dns Lookup Client
Applications perform DNS lookups with the aid of a DLL. They call library functions in the DLL, which in turn handle all communications w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Remote Administration: Encyclopedia Ii - Remote Administration - Software Used For Remote Administration
Windows Server 2003 comes with built-in remote administration tools, including a web application and a cut down version of Terminal Servi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - Common Functionality
Certain features are common across all versions of Windows 2000 (both Professional and the Server versions), among them being NTFS 5, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtual Network Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtual Network Computing - How It Works
VNC has two parts, a client and a server. The server is the program on the machine that shares its screen, and the client (or viewer) is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Exchange Server: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Exchange Server - Current Version
The current version of Exchange is 2003 SP2. It can be run on Windows 2000 Server (only if Service Pack 4 is first installed) and Windows...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows Server 2003: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows Server 2003 - Variants
This Microsoft server comes in several variants, each targeted towards a particular size and type of business: See Compare the Editions o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Directory Service: Encyclopedia Ii - Directory Service - Comparison With Relational Databases
There is a number of things that distinguishes a directory service from a relational database In a directory, the information is general...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xandros: Encyclopedia Ii - Xandros - Products
Xandros makes products for both the consumer and business markets. Xandros - Workstation OSs. Xandros Desktop is for the home user, whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Operations
The client gives each request a positive Message ID, and the server response has the same Message ID. The response includes a numeric res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows Xp Media Center Edition: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows Xp Media Center Edition - Hardware Requirements
Media Center has higher hardware requirements than other versions of Windows XP. MCE 2005 requires at least a 1.6 GHz (or equivalent) pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Dns: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Dns - Dynamic Dns Update Client
Whilst DNS lookups read DNS data, DNS updates write them. Both workstations and servers running Microsoft Windows attempt to write DNS da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtual Network Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtual Network Computing - Security In Vnc
By default, VNC is not a secure protocol. While passwords are not sent in plain-text (as in telnet), brute-force cracking could prove suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xandros: Encyclopedia Ii - Xandros - Look And Feel
The Xandros GUI uses a modified version of the K Desktop Environment (KDE), which includes replacing Konqueror with its own proprietary f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtual Network Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtual Network Computing - History
VNC was created at the Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab, which was then owned by Olivetti and Oracle Corporation. In 1999 AT&T acqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Exchange Server: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Exchange Server - History
The original version of Exchange was envisioned as a x.400 based mail server that also supported the x.500 directory standard. This produ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xandros: Encyclopedia Ii - Xandros - Awards
Xandros has won awards for their products, including the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo's Best Front Office Solution, various editor's ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Certified Professional: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Certified Professional - Criticism
While the MCSE certifies familiarity with Microsoft products, it is not, as its name suggests, an engineering qualification. Use of the t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novell Netware: Encyclopedia Ii - Novell Netware - Performance
NetWare dominated the network operating system (NOS) market from the mid-80s through the mid- to late-90s due to its extremely high perfo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ntfs: Encyclopedia Ii - Ntfs - Interoperability
Microsoft currently provides a tool to convert the FAT32 format to NTFS, but not the other way around. PartitionMagic by Symantec and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows Server 2003: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows Server 2003 - Improvements
There are a number of improvements from Windows 2000 server, notably: Improvements to Active Directory (such as the ability to delete cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows Server 2003: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows Server 2003 - Pricing
Small Business Server: Average cost is $599 USD, the product is purchased through a brick-and-mortar retailer, while an open new license ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Dns: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Dns - Dns Server
Microsoft Windows Domain Controllers can run a DNS Server service. This is a fully fledged, monolithic (i.e. BIND-style rather than djbdn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appletalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Appletalk - Cross Platform Solutions
The BSD and Linux operating systems support AppleTalk through an open source project called Netatalk, which implements the complete proto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Variations
A lot of the server operation is left to the implementor or administrator to decide. Accordingly, servers may be set up to support a wide...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Other Data Models
As the LDAP protocol has gained momentum, vendors have provided it as an access protocol to other services. The implementation then recas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Terminology
Beware: The LDAP terminology one can encounter is quite a mess. Some of this is due to misunderstandings, other examples are due to its h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dns Zone Transfer: Encyclopedia Ii - Dns Zone Transfer - Limitations
Whilst it is standardized, full zone transfer being described as one of the possible database replication mechanisms in RFC 1034 (with in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Schema
The contents of the entries in a subtree is governed by a schema. The schema defines the attribute types that directory entries can conta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Ldap Urls
An LDAP URL format exists which clients support in varying degree, and which servers return in referrals and continuation references: "ld...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Directory Service: Encyclopedia Ii - Directory Service - Implementations Of Directory Services
Directory services were part of an Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) initiative to get everyone in the industry to agree to common network ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Origin And Influences
LDAP started out as an alternative access protocol to the more cumbersome Directory Access Protocol (DAP) for accessing X.500 directories...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Protocol Overview
A client starts an LDAP session by connecting to an LDAP server, by default on port 389. It then sends operation requests to the server, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Directory Structure
The protocol accesses LDAP directories, which follow the X.500 model: A directory is a tree of directory entries. An entry consists of a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Rfcs
LDAP is defined by a series of Request for Comments documents: RFC 2251 - LDAPv3: The specification of the LDAP on-the-wire protocol RFC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Encyclopedia Ii - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Supporting Vendors
LDAP has gained wide support from vendors such as: Apache (through Apache Directory Server) Apple (through Open Directory/OpenLDAP) AT&a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microsoft Exchange Server: Encyclopedia Ii - Microsoft Exchange Server - History
Exchange 4.0 formed the initial foundation for Microsoft's Active Directory service, an LDAP-compliant directory server. Active Directory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appletalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Appletalk - Addressing
An AppleTalk address was a 4-byte quantity. This consisted of a two-byte network number, a one-byte node number, and a one-byte socket nu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appletalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Appletalk - Physical Implementation
The initial default hardware implementation for AppleTalk was a high-speed serial protocol known as LocalTalk that used the Macintosh's b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dns Zone Transfer: Encyclopedia Ii - Dns Zone Transfer - Operation
Zone transfer operates on top of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and takes the form of a client-server transaction. The parties ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - Total Cost Of Ownership
In October 2002, Microsoft commissioned IDC to determine the total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise applications on Windows 2000 ve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appletalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Appletalk - Design
The design fairly rigorously followed the OSI model of protocol layering. Unlike most other early LAN systems, AppleTalk was not built on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - History
Windows 2000 originally descended from the Microsoft Windows NT operating system product line. Originally called Windows NT 5, Microsoft ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - Deployment
Windows 2000 can be deployed to a site via various methods. It can be installed onto servers via traditional media (such as via CD) or vi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - Architecture
Windows 2000 is a highly modular system that consists of two main layers: a user mode and a kernel mode. The user mode refers to the mode...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windows 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows 2000 - Server Family Functionality
The Windows 2000 server family consists of Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. They all...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Active Directory: Encyclopedia Ii - Active Directory - Trust
To allow users in one domain to access resources in another, AD uses trust. Trust is automatically produced when domains are created, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Active Directory: Encyclopedia Ii - Active Directory - Naming
AD supports UNC (\), URL (/), and LDAP URL names for object access. AD internally uses the LDAP version of the X.500 naming structure. Ev...   » Read the article