I'd like to finish off this chapter by briefly discussing domain controllers. While these are not tested on the exam, I feel it worthwhile including them here for completeness as we have been discussing groups in the earlier sections.
A domain controller is a device that manages the devices on a network. In the world of Microsoft, this is a device that will be running Active Directory. Active Directory is a logical database of all users, groups, and computers in the Microsoft domain, and allows for central administration of these.
Active Directory is broken down into the following:
- Containers
- Organizational Units (OUs)
Network administrators will create OUs in a way that usually reflects the organization's
structure, and you may find that an OU has sub-OUs within it. In Figure 14.35, we see that the Manchester OU, has a Sales sub-OU, which in turn...