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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Active Directory</h1>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">A directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks</h3>
<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px"][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Initially, Active Directory was only in charge of centralized domain management. Starting with Windows Server 2008, however, Active Directory became an umbrella title for a broad range of directory-based identity-related services. A server running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user. Also, it allows management and storage of information, provides authentication and authorization mechanisms and establishes a framework to deploy other related services: Certificate Services, Federated Services, Lightweight Directory Services, and Rights Management Services.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][expanding_images hero_image="16684"][/vc_column][/vc_row]</p>
