The need for centralized management of users and devices over networks led to the advent of directory services. The users and devices that need to be authenticated over a network are referred to as resources . Directory services act as a single point that provides information about all the resources on a network.
As most of you are aware, Microsoft’s implementation of on-premises directory services is called Active Directory. In this book, we will use the abbreviation AD to refer to Active Directory in general. ...
