Discover the active directory tool | 6 key takeaways

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What is Active Directory?

Trusts can be one-way or two-way. In a one-way trust, users from Domain A can access Domain B, but users from Domain B cannot access Domain A.

Trusts can be transitive or intransitive. A transitive trust can be extended to more than two domains in the forest, while an intransitive trust is a one-way trust that exists between only two domains.

forest trust applies to the entire forest, is characteristically transitive and may be one-way or two-way. The default boundary for forest trusts is set by the network administrator and will be automatically applied for all newly created domains.

  1. Domain services – performs login authentication for users and provides search functionality, managing interactions between users and domains and storing data in a central location
  2. Rights management – prevents unauthorized access or theft of digital content, protects intellectual property
  3. Certificate services – handles the creation, assignment, and oversight of security certificates
  4. Lightweight directory services – uses LDAP protocol to support directory-enabled apps
  5. Directory federation services – provides single sign-on services to streamline user access to web applications
dashboard active directory service activity

Sumo Logic provides a dashboard that displays the top 10 messages reported in your system with message text and count in a table for the past 24 hours.

FAQs

  • Look for any errors in the Directory Service event logs.

  • Check for DNS resolution issues that may impact Active Directory functionality.

  • Ensure that Group Policy Objects are applying as intended.

  • Review security logs for any failed authentication or authorization events.

  • Monitor for any changes in trust configurations that may impact trust relationships.

  • Ensure that the hardware hosting the Active Directory service can handle its workload

  • Implement proper indexing and search optimization techniques

  • Ensure that changes made to directory data on one domain controller are synchronized to all other domain controllers

  • Regularly clean up outdated or unnecessary data from the Active Directory database

  • Optimize network bandwidth

  • Implement load-balancing techniques