A collection of domains that share a common schema.
Forest
Forest
Active Directory organizes multiple domains hierarchically in a forest. A forest is the top-level structure in Active Directory that contains multiple domains. Each domain within a forest has its own security policies and trust relationships with other domains in the forest.
The Active Directory configuration partition is a critical component of the Active Directory architecture that stores configuration data for the directory service itself. It contains information about the Active Directory forest, including the schema, replication topology, and services available within the forest. This partition is replicated across all domain controllers in the forest, ensuring that every controller has consistent configuration information. It plays a key role in enabling the functionality and management of Active Directory environments.
The logical structure of active directory include forest, domains, tree, OUs and global catalogs.Domain : a group of computer and other resources that are part of a windows server2003 network and share a common directory database.Global catalog : Global catalog used to catch information about all object in a forest , the global catalog enables users and applications to find object in an active directory domain tree if the user or application knows one or more attributes of the target object.Tree : Tree as is collection of Active directory Domain, that means the trust relationship can be used by all other domain in the forest as a means to access the domain.Organization Unit - Organization Unit is a Active directory container into which object can be grouped for per mission management.Forest : Active directory forest as due to represents the external boundary of the directory service.These are two types of active directory forest :-I) Single Forest2) Multiple forest
The logical structure of active directory include forest, domains, tree, OUs and global catalogs.Domain : a group of computer and other resources that are part of a windows server2003 network and share a common directory database.Global catalog : Global catalog used to catch information about all object in a forest , the global catalog enables users and applications to find object in an active directory domain tree if the user or application knows one or more attributes of the target object.Tree : Tree as is collection of Active directory Domain, that means the trust relationship can be used by all other domain in the forest as a means to access the domain.Organization Unit - Organization Unit is a Active directory container into which object can be grouped for per mission management.Forest : Active directory forest as due to represents the external boundary of the directory service.These are two types of active directory forest :-I) Single Forest2) Multiple forest
In Active Directory, the management of adding, removing, and renaming domains within a forest is primarily handled by the Active Directory Domains and Trusts console, along with the Active Directory Users and Computers console. These tasks require appropriate administrative privileges, typically held by Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins. Additionally, the operations are supported by the underlying Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure, which maintains the necessary metadata and replication across the forest.
The physical component of Active directory contain all the physical subnet present in your network like domain controllers and replication between domain controllers.The logical structure of active directory include forest, domains, tree, OUs and global catalogs.Domain : a group of computer and other resources that are part of a windows server2003 network and share a common directory database.Global catalog : Global catalog used to catch information about all object in a forest , the global catalog enables users and applications to find object in an active directory domain tree if the user or application knows one or more attributes of the target object.Tree : Tree as is collection of Active directory Domain, that means the trust relationship can be used by all other domain in the forest as a means to access the domain.Organization Unit - Organization Unit is a Active directory container into which object can be grouped for per mission management.Forest : Active directory forest as due to represents the external boundary of the directory service.These are two types of active directory forest :-I) Single Forest2) Multiple forest
The physical component of Active directory contain all the physical subnet present in your network like domain contollers and replication between domain contollers.The logical structure of active directory include forest, domains, tree, OUs and global catalogs.Domain : a group of computer and other resources that are part of a windows server2003 network and share a common directory database.Global catalog : Global catalog used to catch information about all object in a forest , the global catalog enables users and applications to find object in an active directory domain tree if the user or application knows one or more attributes of the target object.Tree : Tree as is collection of Active directory Domain, that means the trust relationship can be used by all other domain in the forest as a means to access the domain.Organization Unit - Organization Unit is a Active directory container into which object can be grouped for per mission management.Forest : Active directory forest as due to represents the external boundary of the directory service.These are two types of active directory forest :-I) Single Forest2) Multiple forest
Schema
Forest root domain
Active Directory NC (Naming Context's)Active Directory consists of three partitions or naming contexts (NC) Domain, Configuration and Schema Naming ContextsEach are replicated independentlyAn Active Directory forest has single schema and configuration Every domain controller (DC) holds a copy of each (schema, configuration NC's)Forest can have multiple domains Every domain controller in a domain holds a copy of the domain NC