( Some newer protocols, such as Kerberos and Active Directory use DNS SRV records to identify services by name, which is much closer to the AppleTalk model.

* Active Directory, a component of Microsoft Windows that provides distributed user management and authentication

Active Directory ( AD ) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks.

Active Directory provides a central location for network administration and security.

Server computers that run Active Directory are called domain controllers.

For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.

Active Directory makes use of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP ) versions 2 and 3, Kerberos and DNS.

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.

An Active Directory structure is a hierarchical arrangement of information about objects.

An object is uniquely identified by its name and has a set of attributes — the characteristics and information that the object represents — defined by a schema, which also determines the kinds of objects that can be stored in Active Directory.

However, because each schema object is integral to the definition of Active Directory objects, deactivating or changing these objects can fundamentally change or disrupt a deployment.

A Site object in Active Directory represents a geographic location that hosts networks.

The Active Directory framework that holds the objects can be viewed at a number of levels.

The forest, tree, and domain are the logical divisions in an Active Directory network.

Amongst Windows 2000's most significant new features was Active Directory, a near-complete replacement of the NT 4. 0 Windows Server domain model, which built on industry-standard technologies like DNS, LDAP, and Kerberos to connect machines to one another.

* Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops-lacked features such as joining Active Directory Domain, Remote Desktop Server and Internet Information Services Server.

Included Windows XP Service Pack 2, the Royale Windows Theme and joining a Windows Active Directory Domain is disabled.

It can also be part of an Active Directory domain.

* Standalone server, a type of server that is not part of a larger network infrastructure such as an Active Directory domain

* Microsoft Windows Active Directory

The Windows 2000 Server family has additional features, including the ability to provide Active Directory services ( a hierarchical framework of resources ), Distributed File System ( a file system that supports sharing of files ) and fault-redundant storage volumes.

" Novell criticized Microsoft's Active Directory, the new directory service architecture, as less scalable or reliable than its own Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) alternative.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.

An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

The 2018 bomber was, however, required to provide an answer to the fifth generation defense systems ( such as SA-21 Growlers, bistatic radar and Active Electronically Scanned Array radar ).

In September 1825 the works at Forth Street, Newcastle completed the first locomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed Locomotion.

Wall plaque marking the site in 1919, where the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army was founded.

The Forester is available in Europe with the popular 2. 0 liter EJ20 gasoline engine with Active Valve Control System ( AVCS ) matched to either 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic gearbox, and the all-new diesel-powered horizontally opposed ( boxer ) engine, called the Subaru EE and six-speed manual gearbox, which was introduced at the 2008 Paris Motor Show in October.

Nevertheless, Williams was somewhat resentful of being called up, which he admitted years later, particularly regarding the Navy's odd policy of calling up Inactive Reservists rather than members of the Active Reserve.

Following public concern, the U. S. Defense department was ordered by the 9th Circuit Court to strictly limit use of its Low Frequency Active Sonar during peacetime.

** If the router was unable to establish a successful TCP session, then it ends up in the Active state.

Interleaf's " Active Documents " functionality, integrated into its text and graphics editing products in the early 1990s, was the first to give document creators programmatic access ( via LISP ) to virtually all of the document's elements, structures, and software capabilities.

On the battle screen, the enemy appears on the opposite side of the characters ; each battle uses the familiar Active Time Battle system that was first featured in Final Fantasy IV.

The first hip hop album was Diamartiria ( protest ) in 1993 of Active Member along with " Skliroi kairoi " by FF. C.

She was the only woman on comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and participated in the televisual equivalent of Radio Active, KYTV.

He elected to " go Active " ( the euphemism for volunteering for overseas service ) and his aptitude was such that he was appointed Lance Corporal and attended NCO school, and became a basic training instructor in the rank of corporal.

Active only from 1971 – 1980, the anarchist group was one of the few violent groups at the time in West Germany.

Active in Republican politics, he was the Platform Committee chairman at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he offered Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name for renomination at the 1872 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and gave the nominating speech for Oliver H. P. Morton for President at the 1876 Republican National Convention in Cincinnati.

Radio Active was a radio comedy programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the 1980s.

A new one-off episode of Radio Active, the first for 15 years, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002.