What is exactly?"Active Directory"
An small example...in your home or office u heared about "Yellow Pages" on yellow pages they will give index, what is the use of index is u can easily find out any contacts,phone numbers,addresses easily.
like that only Active Directory works, will see some explanation about Active Directory
Active Directory is a Directory Service, and its a multi master enabled database, searchable,scalabe, secure database, we can have groups,users,printers,domain controllers,shared folders, can create OU (Organizational Units) its one of the great feauture in active directory, its main purpose is will seperate administrative task between group of administrator and find an objects (such as users,groups ) easier in Active Directory
And once you created a user account on active directory,users can login into domain and administrator can manage the resourses.
where we can create users?
Once u created domain controller (using dcpromo), u can see the administrative tools - on this u can find out Active Directory Users and computers from here we can create users,groups,shared folders, publishing printers, and creating new domain level, OU level Group ploicies.
Then what is Group policies ? we will see in the next Post
