What difference between a directory and active directory?

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An Directory is the database that holds information about component locations, users, groups, passwords, security, and other COM information. Some of this information is currently stored in the Registry, but will eventually (with Windows 2000) be moved to the Active Directory.

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shridhar76

  • Mar 27th, 2006
 

HI,

Directory in which we can kept files , but active directory is way from where we can create and manage the users , groups , and their previlage , in other word this is mechanism which is founded by Micro Soft (Windows 2000 server edition) for creating domain , from the central location u can manage one particular domain and their users..

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Kondabathini Santosh

  • Apr 14th, 2006
 

Dear friends,

Directory:In IT terminology Directory means a pouch where documents are kept.Like,director consists of files & Documnets etc.

Active Directory:AD is related to servers.It is directory where all users,groups,computers,network resources,list of users Admins and specialised users are recorded.Like AD is Centralised database where the managable data is fed and all the database elements,objects and classes are managed

Thats all friends

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Santosh.K

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Tejas

  • Oct 17th, 2006
 

Active directory is an intergated application in windows 2000/2003 operating systems that holds a repository of AD objects such as users/computer accounts and most important infrastructure of a AD domain controller

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elisha

  • Nov 11th, 2006
 

what is an active directory under windows server 2003,what does it do,how why do we need it.thax

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