Active Directory: Introduction and Administration Tools

This course is aimed to IT Pros and is supposed to give the viewer the information they need to know to get started with Active Directory (AD DS) and its key concepts. The goal is to provide coverage of AD DS main concepts like AD DS components: schema, forest, domain, OU (Organizational Unit), containers. There is also an introduction to Active Directory Administrative Center and the other management tools.

The course is targeted to help learning Active Directory and do your job more efficiently. 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe the components of AD DS.

Describe AD DS domains.

·         Describe OUs and their purpose.

·         Describe AD DS forests and trees and explain how you can deploy them in a network.

·         Explain how an AD DS schema provides a set of rules that manage the objects and attributes that the AD DS domain database stores.

·         Describe Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

·         Identify the tools available for administering AD DS.

·         Describe what is new for on-premises Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2016.