• What is Active Directory?
• What is LDAP?
• Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party
Directory Services? Name a few options.
• Where is the AD database held? What other folders are
related to AD?
• What is the SYSVOL folder?
• Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
• What are application partitions? When do I use them
• How do you create a new application partition
• How do you view replication properties for AD
partitions and DCs?
• What is the Global Catalog?
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Answer / giri
1.Active Directory directory service provides the means to
manage the identities and relationships that make up
network environments.
2.Lightweight Directory access protocol. LDAP is a client-
server protocol for accessing a directory service.
3.Yes, NDS (Novell Directory services)
4.%System root%/NTDS/NTDS.DIT (DIT – Directory Information
Tree).
5.Policies and scripts saved in SYSVOL folder will be
replicated to all domain controllers in the domain. FRS
(File replication service) is responsible for replicating
all policies and scripts
6.Active directory is divided into three partitions
Configuration Partition—replicates entire forest
Schema Partition—replicates entire forest
Domain Partition—replicate only in domain
Application Partition (Only in Windows 2003)
7.Global Catalog-Global catalog is a role, which maintains
Indexes about objects. It contains full information of the
objects in its own domain and partial information of the
objects in other domains. Universal Group membership
information will be stored in global catalog servers and
replicate to all GC’s in the forest.
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Answer / lokesh derashri
Ans 1.An active directory is a directory structure used on
Microsoft Windows based computers and servers to store
information and data about networks and domains. It is
primarily used for online information and was originally
created in 1996. It was first used with Windows 2000
Ans 2.LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an
Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look
up information from a server.
Ans 3.Yes you can Connect Active Directory to other 3rd -
party Directory Services such as dictonaries used by SAP,
Domino etc with the help of MIIS ( Microsoft Identity
Integration Server )
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Answer / thuhin
ans7: Global catalog is a catalog where all the indexes of
the information(Data) will be stored. it will have the
meta-data.
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Answer / vimod
Actve directory is a hierarchial database which contans
user information and used to manage user, computers
centrally
LDAP is light weight Directory protocol used in Active
directory
AD database is held in %systemroot%ntds\ntds.dit
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Answer / thuhin
ans1:It is the centralized way to store information about
the networks. Example for the active directory is the "phone
directory", which will have all the information
ans2: LDAP is Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is
the protocol used by the Active diretory.
ans3: no, we cant connect to other 3rd party Directory Services.
ans4: NTDS is the database for the active directory
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