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Active Directory ( AD) is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. Windows Server operating systems include it as a set of processes and services. [1] [2] Originally, only centralized domain management used Active Directory. However, it ultimately became an umbrella title for various directory-based identity ...
NTLM. In a Windows network, NT (New Technology) LAN Manager ( NTLM) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols intended to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. [1] [2] [3] NTLM is the successor to the authentication protocol in Microsoft LAN Manager (LANMAN), an older Microsoft product.
Flexible single master operation. Flexible Single Master Operations ( FSMO, F is sometimes "floating"; pronounced Fiz-mo), or just single master operation or operations master, is a feature of Microsoft 's Active Directory (AD). [1] As of 2005, the term FSMO has been deprecated in favour of operations masters. [citation needed] [2]
Windows Server 2003's implementation introduces support for logging to a Microsoft SQL Server database, cross-forest authentication (for Active Directory user accounts in other Forests that the IAS server's Forest has a cross-forest trust relationship with, not to be confused with Domain trust which has been a feature in IAS since NT4), support ...
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), a software component developed by Microsoft, can run on Windows Server operating systems to provide users with single sign-on access to systems and applications located across organizational boundaries. It uses a claims-based access-control authorization model to maintain application security and to ...
Windows Server Essentials (formerly Small Business Server or SBS) [2] is an integrated server suite from Microsoft for businesses with no more than 25 users or 50 devices. It includes Windows Server, Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Outlook. Application server technologies are tightly integrated to provide and offer ...
AGDLP (an abbreviation of "account, global, domain local, permission") briefly summarizes Microsoft's recommendations for implementing role-based access controls (RBAC) using nested groups in a native-mode Active Directory (AD) domain: User and computer accounts are members of global groups that represent business roles, which are members of domain local groups that describe resource ...
Azure AD Connect is a tool for connecting on-premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Entra ID. The wizard deploys and configures prerequisites and components required for the connection, including synchronization scheduling and authentication methods. [1] Azure AD Connect encompasses functionality that was previously released as Dirsync ...