Active Directory Services

With this chapter, we are moving towards the third part of this book, which focuses on the Active Directory server roles. There are mainly five Active Directory server roles:

• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
• Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
• Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
• Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

We have already looked into many Active Directory components, features, and capabilities, but we are not quite done yet. This chapter is mainly focused on covering AD DS and the AD LDS related topics such as the following:

• AD LDS overview
• Active Directory replication
• Active Directory sites
• Active Directory database maintenance
• Read-only domain controllers in action
• AD DS backup and recovery