Introduction:
The process of administering and monitoring the activities of the Active Directory service, which is typically found in Windows Server operating systems, is known as Active Directory management. The major goal of AD management is to automate Active Directory user provisioning operations, compliance with rules and audits, security, and centralized access to each user’s…
What is a workgroup and how is it set up?
May 17, 2021
Authenticating users in a computer network.
Employees in any organization, big or small, need to log in to their computers at the start of their work day. Logging in gives them access to shared files, folders, printers, critical applications related to work, as well as the internet. Organizations need to authenticate and verify the identity of each user before they gain access to these…
Domain Functional Levels – An overview
Domain functional level (DFL) determines the features of a Domain Controller (DC) based on the Windows Server Operating System (OS) it runs on. A feature set of a particular DFL will be available for a DC if it runs on the operating system version that is compatible with the functional level. Note that, the OS version constraint is only for the…
Organizational units (OUs)
When you deploy Active Directory (AD) in your company, you may decide to create multiple organizational units (OUs) within your domain. An OU is a container within your domain that holds users, groups, computers, and other objects. You use an OU to store similar objects, making them easy to access and administer them. An OU will always be contained within a single…
Active Directory (AD) schema is a blueprint that describes the rules about the type of objects that can be stored in the AD as well as the attributes related to these objects. The schema thus defines the content, and the structure of the object classes, and theobject attributes used to create an object. While creating a new object, the AD references the classes defined in the schema and…
What is a Read Only Domain Controller (RODC)
May 17, 2021
Introduction
A read only domain controller (RODC) is a type of domain controller that has read-only partitions of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) database. RODC is available in Windows server 2008 OS and in its succeeding versions. Enterprises tend to deploy RODC under two conditions viz.,
When there is not enough physical security to the datacenter.
When there…
Active Directory Subnets, Sites, and Site links
May 17, 2021
Active Directory Subnets
A single, physical network can be broken into smaller segments called subnets in a process called subnetting. Each subnet on a network is connected by routers. Every device in a network, whether it’s a domain controller (DC), a server, or a client, must belong to a particular subnet. By using subnets, an organization won’t need to acquire a new network number…
Active Directory User properties – General tab
April 9, 2021
The general tab of the user properties window allows you to configure the basic details such as name and contact details for a user. The values for the name fields are very important as they make up the value for mandatory attribute cn. (The combination of the values in the 3 name fields makes up the value for cn. In the example given below the cn will be Isabella E Swan.)
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Creating objects in active directory
April 9, 2021
You can create objects in Active Directory by using the Active directory users and computers console.
Start -> Administrators tools -> Active Directory users and computers.
On the Active Directory users and computers console, right click on the container object within which you would like to create an object.
A submenu pops out , from that choose the option new.
On choosing the…
