Archive for April, 2008

Active Directory Namespaces

The previous post was all about LDAP namespace structure which is defined by IETF in RFCs. So in stead of writing down anything which is not useful lets jump over to a session to understand the Active Directory Namespace structure today. • Typeful Names The combination of an object’s name and its LDAP designator is [...]

April 11, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed

LDAP Namespace Structure

Whatever has been posted till yet was not really so much useful if you consider its application in the real life as the old X.500 architecture and all other things are being rolled out slowly out of the technologies. Most of the messaging technologies have started adopting the SMTP as a standard for mail flow [...]

April 8, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed

Classes and Attributes

The world of Active Directory does not end right after understanding the classes and attributes there are several other components which need to be understood before saying that you really understand what Active Directory is.In the implementation of directory service the designers had to take care to reduce down the complexities yet a brilliant performance. [...]

April 7, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed

LDAP Information Model

Continuing the matter of the previous post, this post will contain the information about the LDAP namespace and the LDAP information mode.For a newbie who always finds it difficult to understand the abbreviations and the terms used in Active Directory explanations ever since, I have tried to explain it in the simplest form with an [...]

April 6, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed

Active Directory and LDAP

When Microsoft decided to replace the Registry-based account management system in Windows NT with a real time directory service, rather than introducing a proprietary directory service of their own, they chose to adopt LDAP. Even more importantly, from our perspective as administrators, Microsoft chose to deliver their LDAP directory service using two proven technologies. • [...]

April 2, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed

X.500 – An Overview and Components

The previous post was just to highlight the limitations of Windows NT 4.0 and the need why an a new version of directory services was required to be introduced in the market which could meet the rapidly growing network infrastructures.Microsoft successfully rolled out its own product Windows NT4 by launching Active Directory Services.Active Directory is [...]

April 1, 2008   Posted in: Active Directory Series  Comments Closed