Active Directory component

Active Directory component

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  AD DS COMPONENTS ADDS contains two type of components Physical components Logical components
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  PHYSICAL COMPONENT  DataStore  All the data related to AD DS stores in a file that is NTDS.dit. This file stores the directory information related to users, services and application management. This file is located in c:windowsNTDS folder.  Domain Controllers  Is a server in a domain which provides Active directory Services in the network. It contains the data base of AD DS and allow to manage user accounts and network resources.  Global Catalog Server  It is a Domain controller that contains the information about the Active directory objects of all domains in a forest.  Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC)
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  LOGICAL COMPONENTS  Partitions Schema  Domains  Domain Trees  Forests  Sites  Organizational Units (OUs)
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  PARTITION  The ActiveDirectory database is logically separated into directory partitions  Schéma partition:- Only one schema partition exists per forest. The schema partition is stored on all domain controllers in a forest. The schema partition contains definitions of all objects and attributes that you can create in the directory, and the rules for creating and manipulating them.  Configuration partition:- There is only one configuration partition per forest. Second on all domain controllers in a forest, the configuration partition contains information about the forest-wide active directory structure including what domains and sites exist, which domain controllers exist in each forest, and which services are available. Configuration information is replicated to all domain controllers in a forest  Domain partition:- Many domain partitions can exist per forest. Domain partitions are stored on each domain controller in a given domain. A domain partition contains information about users, groups, computers and organizational units. The domain partition is replicated to all domain controllers of that domain.  Application partition:- Application partitions store information about application in Active Directory. Each application determines how it stores, categorizes, and uses application specific information.  Each partition is a unit of replication, and each partition has its own replication topology
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  SCHEMA  The MicrosoftActive Directory schema contains formal definitions of every object class that can be created in an Active Directory forest. The schema also contains formal definitions of every attribute that can exist in an Active Directory object.  The following types of classes are defined by Active Directory.  Structural Classes  Abstract Classes  Auxiliary Classes
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  DOMAIN  Domain isa logical group of objects which are managed from a centralized location.  One or more computers are servers. Network administrators use servers to control the security and permissions for all computers on the domain. This makes it easy to make changes because the changes are automatically made to all computers.
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  DOMAIN TREE  Thedomain tree is a hierarchy of domains in AD DS. The first domain creared is the root domain.  In domain tree, all domains share a comman or contiguous namespace.  In domain tree the domains have transitive turst with other domains in the tree.
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  FOREST  The forestis a outer most boundary of directory services.  The forest is collection of domains or domain trees which share a common directory schema and configuration of the directory service.  There are two types of forest topologies:  Single forest  Multiple forest
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  SITES  Sites inActive Directory® represent the physical structure, or topology, of the network. Active Directory uses topology information, stored as site and site link objects in the directory, to build the most efficient replication topology. You use Active Directory Sites and Services to define sites and site links. A site is a set of well-connected subnets. Sites differ from domains; sites represent the physical structure of the network, while domains represent the logical structure of the organization