Sunday, September 21, 2014

Lesson Four: Active Directory

This week’s lesson in the Windows Server Pro certification curriculum focused on Active Directory. This agent allows organizational resources to be effectively deployed and managed.  This is accomplished by the use of a server call the Domain Controller.  These machines use Organizational Units (OU) to hold resources of users and hardware to accomplish the organization’s mission while making sure that corporate security and access needs are met.

An OU is a generic container that can hold users or groups of users as well as computers or other resources. It is the smallest unit that can be assigned Group Policy settings or that can be delegated administrative authority.  OU's should reflect a domain structure that closely reflects the design of the organization.     

This was an useful lesson, looking forward to more!

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