Archive for September 2012
Configuring and Using AD LDS
Now that you have installed AD LDS, you can begin to work with it to store directory related data for various applications. The first thing you should do is become familiar with the AD LDS tool set. After you understand which tools you can use to manage AD LDS, you can begin to create your…
Read MoreActive Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Of the five different Active Directory technologies available in Windows Server 2008, the one that most resembles Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). That’s because AD LDS is really nothing more than a subset of AD DS functionality. Both use the same core code, and both provide…
Read MoreProactive Directory Performance Management
Windows Server includes several tools that help identify potential issues with system resources. When systems are not configured properly and are not assigned appropriate resources such as CPU, RAM, or disk space, systems monitoring will help you identify where bottlenecks occur. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson When you identify these bottlenecks,…
Read MoreProtecting DCs as Virtual Machines
When a server is created as a VM instead of being installed on a physical computer, it becomes nothing more than a set of files on a disk because the disk drives for the computer are hosted in virtual hard drives. DCs running both AD DS and DNS are ideal candidates for virtualization on either…
Read MoreProactive Directory Maintenance and Data Store Protection
AD DS is a distributed database that contains information about the users, the computers, the servers, the services, and more that run in your network, hence its categorization as a network operating system (NOS) as well as a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory service. Because of this, administration activities can be shared amongst several…
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