Active Directory Fundamentals

Welcome to the world of managing identities! Doesn't it sound fun? As system administrators, system engineers, and infrastructure engineers, we spend a significant amount of time every day managing identities in organizations. These identities can be user accounts, applications, or other resources. Over 15 years, Microsoft Active Directory has maintained its premier position in the market by helping organizations build their identity infrastructures. As a directory service, it stores an organization's identity data in a central repository and allows us to arrange it in a hierarchical organizational structure to satisfy the business' needs.

Over the years, Microsoft has been releasing a new version of Active Directory ...

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