Microsoft Active Directory
A special-purpose hierarchical database composed of domain, schema, and configuration partitions.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
What is Microsoft Active Directory?
Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks and included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services.
An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.
Active Directory makes use of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) versions 2 and 3, Microsoft's version of Kerberos, and DNS.
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- English
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- hierarchical-database
- windows-networks
- System Administration
- directory-service
- group-policy
- windows-domain
- windows-server
- windows-networking
- windows-servers
- network-security
- windows-domains
- directory-access-protocol
- domain-management
- network-management
- windows-network
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