Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Part I. Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Overview

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory is the latest iteration of directory services available from Microsoft. Active Directory provides a powerful directory service to manage users, groups, and computers and offers secure access to network resources. To use this directory service most efficiently, you need to understand the underlying Active Directory concepts and how Active Directory works. That is the goal of Part I of this book. In Chapter 1, you are introduced to what Windows Server 2003 Active Directory can do for you. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, provide a detailed description of the concepts and components that constitute Active Directory. Active Directory is tightly integrated ...