The Active Directory is Microsoft's implementation of a 'Directory Service' and a directory service is basically something that stores data in an organized format and has the mechanisms needed to publish and access the data. Active Directory is not a Microsoft innovation, but rather an implementation of an existing model (X.500), an existing communication mechanism (LDAP) and an existing location technology (DNS), and each of these are covered in the FAQ.

If you are using authentication by an external AAA server (LDAP, Active Directory, etc), then you do not need to define users in AccessPoint. However, you are also unable to create bookmarks or policies by users. To create individual bookmarks by user or group, you must define the users in AccessPoint. Because the users are authenticating to a AAA server, the users do not require passwords. Once defined, you can add bookmarks or policies per user or per group to which the user belongs. See similar questions...

The Active Directory is backed up using the NTBACKUP.EXE utility. The Active Directory is part of the machines System State which is defined as follows: For all Windows 2000 machines the System State includes the registry, class registration database and the system boot files. For a Windows 2000 Server that is a certificate server it also contains the Certificate Services database. See similar questions...

The Active Directory cannot be restored to a domain controller while the Directory Service is running so to restore perform the following: the boot menu select "Windows 2000 Server" but do NOT press Enter. See similar questions...

It is possible to configure auditing on the Active Directory to produce both successful and failed entries in the Directory Service event log. See similar questions...

There are a number of methods available to name objects in the Active Directory, the most popular of which is the Distinguished Name or DN. An excellent RFC exists for DN explanation at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1779.html but I'll run over the basics here. See similar questions...

Active Directory has the concept of sites which can be used to group servers into containers which mirror the physical topology of your network, and allow you to configure replication between domain controllers (among other things). A number of TCP/IP subnets can also be mapped to sites which the allow new servers to automatically join the correct site depending on their IP address and for clients to easily find a domain controller closest to them. See similar questions...

Active Directory can record either sequential or circular logs, although sequential is the default and is preferred. Circular logs overwrite transactions at specific intervals, whereas sequential logs are never overwritten (but data in sequential log files whose transactions have been committed to the database are deleted during garbage collection intervals.) Sequential log files are not overwritten with new data. They grow until they reach a specified size. See similar questions...

As with domain controllers, Windows 2000 tracks each domain in the metadata and if you remove all the domain controller's for a domain and never select "This is the last domain controller in the domain" when running DCPROMO to demote to a normal server its information will not be cleaned up and its domain information will remain. See similar questions...

Yes. With your ClearSail account, you may obtain Internet access and eMail from any one of our access numbers. If you know you are planning a trip to a particular city serviced by ClearSail, just give us a call to activate. See similar questions...

In case of multiple data providers we can link common dimensions but while getting data or synchronising... How does one make use of the "Call Web Service" component in the $AB_HOME/connectors/Internet directory... What is patch database (IPD etc)How do you check root disk failed?How do you restore whole OS backup... See similar questions...

X.500 is the most common protocol that is used for Directory Management and there are currently 2 main standards, the 1988 and 1993 standards with the 1993 standard providing a number of advances over the older standard. The Windows NT 5.0 implementation of its Directory Services is derived from the 1993 X.500 standard as described below. The X.500 model uses a hierarchical approach to the objects in the name space with a root at the top of the namespace with children coming off of it. See similar questions...

Yes. A client can connect to multiple servers providing different services, and/or multiple servers providing the same service. To use multiple servers with the same interface, the client must obtain a binding handle for each server and use explicit handles in the RPC. See similar questions...

Yes, in this mode the users list is automatically synchronized to the Active Directory's users list, and the identification of the user in SurfPass is transparent. This is the ideal solution for large network. See similar questions...

The QlikView security model is built around Windows NT/AD security. Access can be limited in several levels based on NT/AD identity. The QlikView Publisher product is also built for integration with AD. See similar questions...

No. Active Directory is required for MobileAdminSite??. MobileAdminSite?? Server must be a member server or domain controller. See similar questions...

Yes, most e-mail clients will allow you to configure a Directory Server profile to search for addresses. The settings are as follows: See similar questions...

There is nothing in the specification that would prevent you from doing this. The specification defines how requests should get mapped to resources, the... See similar questions...