ITM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Directory Service, Domain Controller, Active Directory

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 315
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

A network directory service stores information about a computer network and offers. The role of a directory service features for retrieving and managing that information. services to find resources requires careful planning prior to setup. Generally considered to be an administrative tool, but users make use of directory. Directory services provide a centralized management tool, but due to complexity, X. 500 is the basis for its hierarchical structure. Lightweight directory access protocol (ldap) is based on the x. 500 directory access. Active directory"s physical structure communicate and replicate information regularly is responsible for: controllers in the domain directory and attempt to access network resources. Integrating other oss, such as linux and unix into an active directory network. Windows active directory was first used in windows 2000 server. Consists of sites and servers configured as domain controllers. Makes it possible to pattern the directory service"s look and feel after the organization in.