Active Directory Services

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Updated: March 25, 2009

Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Active Directory services include Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).

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Active Directory Certificate Services. Discover how Active Directory Certificate Services allows you to create, distribute, and manage customized public key certificates.

Active Directory Domain Services. Learn about how Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stores directory data and manages communication between users and domains, including user logon processes, authentication, and directory searches.

Active Directory Federation Services. Discover how Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) provides Web single-sign-on (SSO) technologies to authenticate a user to multiple Web applications over the life of a single online session.

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services. Learn about the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), which is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service that provides flexible support for directory-enabled applications, without the restrictions of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Active Directory Rights Management Services. Find out how Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) protects your information and works with AD RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use.

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rgullick

Nice To See

That Microsoft still can't build AD configuration tools that work straight out of the box USING DEFAULT PLAIN VANILLA SETTINGS without some kind of major headache. Windows Server 2008 same as Windows Server 2003 same as Windows Server 2000.<br /><br /> Different day, same old stupid ***. If I had five dollars for every hour of my life I have wasted on GPO replication I'd be teeing it up next to Gates at Augusta on Saturday.<br /><br /> Is that nice enough for your positive collaboration environment? <div><br /></div><div>What I really mean is that I am either too lazy or too dense to be working with these technologies.<br /><br /><pre>[tfl] Thank you for your feedback. For these kinds of questions, please try the Microsoft forums: <mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en</mtps:InstrumentedLink><mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">TechNet: </mtps:InstrumentedLink><mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories</mtps:InstrumentedLink></pre><br /></div>

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Thomas Lee

Server problem

still looking some solution<br /><pre>[tfl] Thank you for your feedback. For these kinds of questions, please try the Microsoft forums: <mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en or </mtps:InstrumentedLink><mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">TechNet: </mtps:InstrumentedLink><mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories</mtps:InstrumentedLink></pre>

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Active Directory UA Docs

Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008

<p>Getting ready to upgrade from Windows 2003, Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (or should I go straight to Exchange 2010?) on a Windows 2008 platform. Question??? Can I upgrade Exchange to a Windows 2008 platform BEFORE i upgrade domain controllers to Windows 2008???<br /><br />AD Doc Team: Sure.</p>

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