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Objects and Attributes
For the most part, an object is nothing more than a collection of specific pieces of information about the object. For example, an object that represents a user account contains attributes that hold information about the particular user. When you create user accounts in the Active Directory, you supply the same information that […]

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Directory services should make things easier, not more difficult. Microsoft’s Active Directory (as well as other LDAP-based directories) uses the hierarchical treelike organization as spelled out by the X.500 standards, but the Active Directory also adapts the Windows NT domain system, by using DNS as a locator service, to the structure. That is, in addition […]