Active Directory

Nice way to keep, maintain and control lots of ICT resources per domains, used in Windows servers like Windows 2010.

OU (Organizational Unit)



 * Active Directory manages information and resources inside a domain by an unit called OU, Organizational Unit.
 * It is considered like a folder and sub-folder. Easier to maintain and organize stuffs.
 * You can make OU like Tokyo OU, Osaka OU and YKH OU and each network administrators in charge of maintaining these.
 * OU’s offer the best method to organize the hierarchical structure in Active Directory.

What AD keeps?



 * User Accounts
 * Workstations
 * Servers

Misc

 * Active Directory usually uses LDAP as directory service protocol. And Kerberos as authentication protocol.

Links

 * http://jpaloma.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/active-directory-organizational-unit-design-principles/