Active Directory Services (ADS)
A Microsoft active directory, in simple terms, is like a giant telephone book that organizes within
it all of the computers and people that have been entered into it. In our case our active directory
is called ADS (for Active Directory Service). Unlike a telephone book however ADS is not
sorted alphabetically, but rather like the yellow pages by category, in our case by department.
This allows us to mimic the universities administrative structure for Academic Support
departments.
Administrators use an active directory to apply policies to objects (computers and users), put
people into security groups (to allow and deny access to resources), and to better keep track of
things in groups (called Organizational Units). Clients can make use of an active directory to
look up names, phone numbers and any number of other attributes allowed by administrators.
ADS is more than this though. It is the central authentication domain used by Quest and to log
onto Academic Support computers, to name a few. It is synchronized regularly with UWdir.
Many corporate resources authenticate against ADS and it makes our lives easier by giving us
one central place to maintain these accounts.
Adding Users and Computers to the Active Directory Domain
After the new Active Directory domain is established, create a user account in that domain to use as an
administrative account. When that user is added to the appropriate security groups, use that account to add
computers to the domain.
1. To create a new user, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users
and Computers to start the Active Directory Users and Computers console.
b. Click the domain name that you created, and then expand the contents.
c. Right-click Users, point to New, and then click User.
d. Type the first name, last name, and user logon name of the new user, and then click
Next.
e. Type a new password, confirm the password, and then click to select one of the
following check boxes:
Users must change password at next logon (recommended for most users)
User cannot change password
Password never expires
Account is disabled
Click Next.
f. Review the information that you provided, and if everything is correct, click Finish.
. After you create the new user, give this user account membership in a group that permits that
user to perform administrative tasks. Because this is a laboratory environment that you are in
control of, you can give this user account full administrative access by making it a member of
the Schema, Enterprise, and Domain administrators groups. To add the account to the Schema,
Enterprise, and Domain administrators groups, follow these steps:
a. On the Active Directory Users and Computers console, right-click the new account that you
created, and then click Properties.
b. Click the Member Of tab, and then click Add.
c. In the Select Groups dialog box, specify a group, and then click OK to add the groups
that you want to the list.
d. Repeat the selection process for each group in which the user needs account
membership.
e. Click OK to finish.
. The final step in this process is to add a member server to the domain. This process also applies
to workstations. To add a computer to the domain, follow these steps:
a. Log on to the computer that you want to add to the domain.
b. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
c. Click the Computer Name tab, and then click Change.
d. In the Computer Name Changes dialog box, click Domain under Member Of, and
then type the domain name. Click OK.
e. When you are prompted, type the user name and password of the account that you
previously created, and then click OK.
A message that welcomes you to the domain is generated.
f. Click OK to return to the Computer Name tab, and then click OK to finish.
g. Restart the computer if you are prompted to do so.
ADS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMQO8XR4xc
DHCP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bv1itFPQ7O0&feature=&p=AC0E8DAD17F51B96&index=0&playnext=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhTT3I8Arfo
DNS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhOSxZ1WJk&playnext=1&list=PL389D52EC1061B550&index=28
POP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE844aZqkH8
SMTP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xTawMm1Ug
UDP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8D2YBRIrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VVjODrJiQ
VPN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNviKTWjU4c
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5595567/Windows-Interview-question-answers
