Disabled accounts
If an organization has a provisioning process in place for governing (automatically) the enabling and disabling of account status and (or) there is a good frequency of guest / vendor engagement, this process is very effective. Owing to the uncertainty…
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…
Domain functional level
May 17, 2021
Introduction
Domain functional level (DFL) determines the features of a Domain Controller (DC) based on the Windows server Operating System (OS) it runs on. Feature set of a particular DFL will be available for a DC if it runs on the operating system version that is…
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…
Active Directory Schema
May 17, 2021
Active Directory (AD) schema is a blueprint which 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…
Read only domain controller
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…
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…
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…
Understanding Active Directory Objects
April 9, 2021
What you’ll learn:
Active Directory (AD) is a directory service introduced by Microsoft as a centralized network resource management system. This network is comprised of entities that represent real users or network resources, and the entities are called as Active…
Framework of Active Directory
March 2, 2021
The Active Directory structure is built on the domain level. The framework that holds the objects can be viewed at different levels namely forest, domain trees and domains.
At the top of the level is the forest. A forest holds all the Active directory data. The first…
