What is Active Directory?

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What is Active Directory?..

Answer / ashoka.lokhande

Active Directory is Microsoft’s directory service that stores information about objects on a network and makes this information available to users and network administrators. Active Directory gives network users access to permitted resources anywhere on the network using a single logon process. It provides network administrators with an intuitive, hierarchical view of the network and a single point of administration for all network objects. Active Directory is designed especially for distributed networking environments.

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What is Active Directory?..

Answer / anil

it allows operating system like window server 2003, 2008 to
become server . because without AD these are only an
ordinary OS like xp.

Active Directory is Microsoft’s directory service that
stores information about objects on a network and makes this
information available to users and network administrators.
Active Directory gives network users access to permitted
resources anywhere on the network using a single logon
process. It provides network administrators with an
intuitive, hierarchical view of the network and a single
point of administration for all network objects. Active
Directory is designed especially for distributed networking
environments.

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What is Active Directory?..

Answer / vikas dhapodkar

active directory is the authentication for ldap directory
services and also used to naming convert.Therefore, it is
also used to password policy.

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