Chapter 2. Active Directory Domain Services Components

In this chapter:
AD DS Physical Structure	19
AD DS Logical Structure	41
Summary	60
Additional Resources	61

As an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) administrator, you will spend much of your time configuring user and group accounts that are located in organizational units or container objects, which are located in a domain. When you configure these objects, you are actually making changes to a database file that is stored on the domain controller hard drive. In most circumstances, you will not directly interact with the physical AD DS database; rather you will use the AD DS management tools to modify the logical objects stored in the database.