Configuration Scenario

Active directory provides the necessary identity management. It allows network administrators to store and manage information about resources of the organization network.

Active directory provides authorization and authentication mechanism. It also provides framework within which other related services are deployed

Active directory management is the process of monitoring the operations of the Active Directory services. The major goal of active directory management is to automate Active directory user Active Directory provisioning processes.

Active directory includes:

Replication service

A query and index mechanism

A global catalog

A set of rules

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How to add locations to the corporate network

Ray’s food network administrator can add locations to the corporate network by creating a domain account in Active directory

As one configures the Active directory domain, one can specify one or more active directory domains that the organizations can select when they authenticate

Managing and configuring Active Directory can take at most three hours (Lowe-Norris, 2006)