Understanding Active Directory

As an organization grows by increasing the number of employees needed to support its daily business functions, the number of devices connected to the organization’s network increases as well. When an organization is small, there are very few users and computers on the network, and having a dedicated IT team is not always needed. Most importantly, since a small company has very few users, IT professionals can easily create a local user account on each system per employee. However, as the number of users and devices increases to make a medium-sized or large organization, creating local accounts for each user per device is not efficient.

For instance, imagine you need to change a user’s password on their user account and there are over 100 devices in the network – this can be very challenging. Within Microsoft Windows Server, you will find many roles and features that can be installed and configured to help IT professionals provide...