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Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition
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Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition

by Bekim Dauti
October 2019
Beginner
426 pages
10h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition

Understanding the AD infrastructure

Active Directory is Microsoft's technology that represents a distributed database that stores objects in a hierarchical, structured, and secure format. AD's objects typically represent users, computers, peripheral devices, and network services. Each object is uniquely identified by its name and attributes. The domain, the forest, and the tree represent logical divisions of an AD infrastructure. An AD uses the following protocols and services:

  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to access the directory services data.
  • Kerberos securely authenticates and proves the identity between users and servers on the network.
  • DNS is used to translate domain names into IP addresses.

An AD is managed ...

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