Active Directory - Naming

Active Directory (codename Cascade) is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active Directory allows administrators to assign enterprise wide policies, deploy programs to many computers, and apply critical updates to an entire organization. An Active Directory stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few hundred obj ...

Including:

• Active Directory - Structure
• Active Directory - Objects
• Active Directory - Forests Trees and Domains
• Active Directory - Physical structure and Replication
• Active Directory - Naming
• Active Directory - Trust
• Active Directory - Trusts in Windows 2000 native mode
• Active Directory - Notes

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AD supports UNC (\), URL (/), and LDAP URL names for object access. AD internally uses the LDAP version of the X.500 naming structure. Every object has a Distinguished name (DN), so a printer object called HPLaser3 in the OU Marketing and the domain foo.org, would have the DN: CN=HPLaser3,OU=Marketing,DC=foo,DC=org where CN is common name and DC is domain object class, DNs can have many more than four parts. The object can also have a Canonical name, essentially the DN in reverse, witho ...

See also:

Active Directory, Active Directory - Structure, Active Directory - Objects, Active Directory - Forests Trees and Domains, Active Directory - Physical structure and Replication, Active Directory - Naming, Active Directory - Trust, Active Directory - Trusts in Windows 2000 native mode, Active Directory - Notes

Read more here: » Active Directory: Encyclopedia II - Active Directory - Naming

Active Directory - Objects. An Active Directory (AD) structure is a hierarchical framework of objects. The objects fall into three broad categories — resources (e.g. printers), services (e.g. e-mail), and people (accounts, or users and groups). The AD provides information on the objects, organizes the objects, controls access, and sets security. Each object represents a single entity — whether a user, a computer, a printer, an application, or a shared data source — and its attributes. Objects ...

See also:

Active Directory, Active Directory - Structure, Active Directory - Objects, Active Directory - Forests Trees and Domains, Active Directory - Physical structure and Replication, Active Directory - Naming, Active Directory - Trust, Active Directory - Trusts in Windows 2000 native mode, Active Directory - Notes

Read more here: » Active Directory: Encyclopedia II - Active Directory - Structure

To allow users in one domain to access resources in another, AD uses trust. Trust is automatically produced when domains are created, the forest sets the default boundaries of trust, not the domain, and implicit trust is automatic. As well as two-way transitive trust, AD trusts can be shortcut (joins two domains in different trees, transitive, one- or two-way), forest (transitive, one- or two-way), realm (transitive or nontransitive, one- or two-way), or external (nontransitive, one- or two-way) in order to connect to other forests or non-AD domains. AD uses the Kerberos V5 protocol, although NTLM is a ...

See also:

Active Directory, Active Directory - Structure, Active Directory - Objects, Active Directory - Forests Trees and Domains, Active Directory - Physical structure and Replication, Active Directory - Naming, Active Directory - Trust, Active Directory - Trusts in Windows 2000 native mode, Active Directory - Notes

Read more here: » Active Directory: Encyclopedia II - Active Directory - Trust