Disadvantages of active directory in comparison to other directory services?

Answer 1

1. Active Directory is a Flat File Database, and as such does not scale well to distributed locations. On very slow links site replication can take upwards of 4hrs, or fail to complete before next replication which will cause errors.

2. Active Directory fails full LDAP compliance, which limits what open source or 3rd party products can be deployed (as such, costs increase exponentially)

3. Active Directory is OS dependent and cannot be installed on any platform other than Windows server. (This increases licensing costs and reduces reliability).

Answer 2

An AD lets you manage your network from one point.

Its very convienent.

Its easy to use

Easy to set-up

Very flexible

If your AD goes down your networks down

Though it's easy to set-up, if set-up wrong it can be a very timely and costly procedure to remove and start again

You have to install DNS first, and some people (for whatever reasons) cant fully get their heads round DNS

Its very easy to hack an AD

advantages

more secure

delegation easy

robust

easy manageability(ou)

easy administration and control

all regions have same data

can manage millions of objects

search easy

Increases the Productivity of Users

Reduces the Burden of IT Administration

Increase Fault Tolerance to minimize Downtime

It improves Security

disadvantage

cost of infrastructure

good planning is must

Complex structure for user

Answer 3

To authenticate users faster in the domain

To authenticate resources(gps etc) faster for the users

Utilization of resources

Utilization of network and descreasing the overall traffic in the network.

The main benefit is that of the users and passwords management, which could grow to be massive amount of work having to manage them individually on each independent servers. The proposed changes of migrating the whole platform to Active Directory environment will assist in propagating the changes (such as new users, password changes, new security requirements via GPO, etc) on to the servers (which will run as domain clients, only 1 or 2 will run Primary and Secondary ADC. Not all these servers are going to run host AD or be an ADC, server OS is used due to it's robustness and reliability).

disadvantage

cost of infrastructure

good planning is must

Complex structure for user

Answer 4

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Answer 5

disadvantage

cost of infrastructure

good planning is must

Complex structure for user

Answer 6

disadvantage

cost of infrastructure

good planning is must

Complex structure for user