AD DS Structure
The logical structure of AD DS enables it to scale from small offices to large, multinational organizations. Administrative granularity is built in to allow delegation of control to groups or specific users. No longer is the assigning of administrative rights an all-or-nothing scenario.
AD DS loosely follows an X.500 directory model, but takes on several characteristics of its own. Many of us are already getting used to the forests and trees of AD DS, and some limitations that existed before in previous versions of AD DS have been lifted. To understand AD DS, we must first take a good look at its core structural components.
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