Active Directory

Question 1

What is active directory?

Answer 1

• a collection of machines and servers connected inside of a domais

Question 2

What is a domain controller?

Answer 2

• windows server that has AD Domain Services installed (promoted to be Domain Controller in the forest)
• control everything

Question 3

What is a forest?

Answer 3

• collection of one or more domain trees inside of AD network
• categorize the part of the network as the whole

Question 4

What is Tree, Domain, … (“chart” in answer)

Answer 4

Trees - A hierarchy of domains in Active Directory Domain Services
Domains - Used to group and manage objects
Organizational Units (OUs) - Containers for groups, computers, users, printers and other OUs
Trusts - Allows users to access resources in other domains
Objects - users, groups, printers, computers, shares
Domain Services - DNS Server, LLMNR, IPv6
Domain Schema - Rules for object creation