Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide
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An important aspect of managing Active Directory with ADSI scripts is understanding the two primary parts of Active Directory, the Active Directory store and the components (DLLs) that make the directory accessible. These two parts of Active Directory work together to provide the foundation of Windows 2000 Server family distributed networks.
The Active Directory store provides secure, searchable, hierarchical storage of objects contained in a network, including users, computers, printers, and applications. The objects in the Active Directory store contain identity and location information to describe network resources. The Active Directory store is contained in a file named the Windows NT® Directory Services Directory Information Tree, Ntds.dit.
The Active Directory components that make the information in the store accessible to users and applications are the:
The DSA is also integral to directory replication from one domain controller to another.
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