Active Directory

• Key Terms
  • Organization
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• Need for central database for authentication & authorization
• Not all enterprises have one location (branches,etc), we need active directory to replicate the data
• High availability
• Security
• Auditing capabilities
• Single Sign-on
• Querying and indexing

Lab Setup:

• We would require
  • Windows Server 2016 => 2-3
  • Windows 10 => 2
  • Azure Cloud account (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdDOc9OPVDA&list=PLuVH8Jaq3mLuqXuGs6aeqxhuvCYSzB1kT)

Understanding AD Components

• AD components can be divided into
  • Logical Components
  • Physical Components
• Consider any forest and we will have different tribes and animal species who belong to the forest and they will have their own boundary and child items

AD Logical Components

• Active Logical Structure contains two types of objects
  • Container objects: can contain other objects
  • Leaf objects
• Forest: Every organization has only one forest
• Domain: Collection of users, groups, systems and printers in an organizational boundary
• DomainTrees:
• Organization Units

AD Physical Components

• Domain Controller:
• Global Catalog
• Active Directory Sites

Setup of Active Directory

• Create a Windows Server 2016
• Follow the instructions as present in the video