ITM 315 Lecture Notes - Microsoft, Domain Controller, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 315
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

Note the first domain installed in a network, automatically takes the role of root domain eg root of forest/ Active directory (ad): each domain has a database of all objects (users, groups printers, Ous, computers) identified by these unique securities id (sid) A sid is a globally unique id (guid) that identifies an object and its attributes. Global catalog: the root domain has an additional database called global catalog (gc). Unp (user naming principal) has the following generic format username @ fully qualified domain name (fqdn) ex: nancy@child1. domain. com. Domain vs dns: a domain must have an authorized dns server, a dns maps ip to names (name resolution) or names to ip. Note: to find out about your dns ip address nslookup. Or to find out the names of a dns given its ip nslookup 183. 11. 12. 95. Note: if a name server (dns) is not available you can not access domain: dns controls communication between sites.