August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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Active Directory Components
Using the Active Directory, you can organize resources in a logical structure. This organization also benefits users, who can find the information quickly.
To get this organization in place, consider the components and implementations discussed in the following sections.
Objects
Everything in Windows 2000 is a object, so the Active Directory is populated with different kinds of objects. A network resource is represented with a set of attributes. An attribute is a characteristic of something; for example, an attribute for a user is his password or his email address. The set of attributes for a user will not be the same as the set of attributes for a shared printer. When you create an Active Directory object, AD automatically ...