1.7. Summary
In this chapter, we covered Active Directory fundamentals. We gave you a high-level overview of many concepts related to Active Directory and how it is logically laid out. We covered the benefits of deploying Active Directory, including its hierarchical organization, extensible schema, centralized data storage, replication, ease of administration, network security, client configuration management, scalability and performance, and its searching functionality.
You also learned about how the Active Directory compares to Windows NT's domain model. As you might recall, Windows NT 4 uses a flat domain model, whereas Active Directory is robust, hierarchical, and scaleable and can grow far beyond NT 4's limitations.
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