From the course: Windows Server 2025: Install and Configure Active Directory
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Overview of AD structure and hirarchy - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2025: Install and Configure Active Directory
Overview of AD structure and hirarchy
- [Instructor] Now that we have installed our first domain controller, let's take a look at what it actually installed and the infrastructure that we have. So right now we actually have an Active Directory, which is basically our directory system. And one of the most commonly used tools of Active Directory is the Active Directory Users and Computers interface. This actually gives you a brief overview of your forest and domain structure but, more importantly, it actually gives you what you actually are going to use in terms of the directory. So where do your users go? Where do all your computers go? All of those actually can be found in the Active Directory Users and Computers interface. So when we look at users, right now we don't have any users that we created but it already comes with some default users. For example, we are using the Administrator user to install our domain controller or any other servers, but Active Directory also comes with a lot of built-in user groups, these are…
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