This time we're continuing on learning about AD and what it does.
Last time, i pretty much told you what AD's general purpose was and now i'm going to explain how it does it in slightly more detail.
Well, the first thing to know is that in AD, a domain is considered to be A Group of Resources and what is meant by that is the resources share a common security and admin boundaries (like the example i gave in the previous post).
The second thing you should know about AD is that it has a selection of topologies (layouts) such as;
- Tree - its a grouping of domains in the same namespace (below is an example)
- Each tree has a root so in this context, if you look at the image upside down, the root would be in its traditional place (The image isn't mine so Thanks to the people who run mcmcse.com! Much appreciated! http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/images/ad2.jpg )
- Another topology is the Forest - a forest topology like its namesake is a mass grouping of "trees" that have individual names but share a schema (formal definition of everything, like a glossary) and global catalog (searchable index of everything in the forest) As with above, here is an illustration from the nice people at mcmcse.org http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/images/ad3.jpg
Thats all for now minions!
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