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active directory question - ftaran - 04-05-2009
(a) Active Directory is a single point of network resource management which stores information about network resources and the services that make the information available.
(i) Describe the four basic logical components comprising the Windows 2003 Active Directory hierarchical structure.
[12 marks]
(ii) Other than the Windows 2000/2003 Server operating system, what prerequisite service must be installed prior to installing Active Directory?
[1 mark]
(b) The Global Catalogue contains selected information about every object in all domains of a forest. A ?query? is a specific request made by a user to the global catalogue to retrieve, modify or delete Active Directory data. Describe the steps involved in the query process, indicating the entities involved in the transactions. Support your answer with the aid of a diagram,
[12 marks]
© Group Policies Objects (GPOs) are collections of user and computer configuration settings that can be linked to computers, sites domains and organisational units (OUs) to specify the behaviour of users? desktops. By default, they are applied hierarchically from the least restrictive (upper levels) to the most restrictive group and are cumulative. Describe the settings that can be applied to group policies that override the default behaviour (e.g. a computer that is part of a work group would only process its local GPO).
[8 marks]