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Miles Consulting Corp (MCC) employs Active Directory consultants who are regarded
as industry Active Directory experts. MCC is the leading Microsoft Gold
Certified consulting firm with deep expertise in Active Directory. By allowing
our Active Directory consultants to configure Active Directory Lightweight Directory
Services (AD LDS) for your business, we can optimize directory services for
directory-enabled applications. AD LDS does not require or rely on Active Directory
domains on forest. AD LDS was previously known as Active Directory Application Mode
(ADAM).
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AD LDS Usage Scenarios
- Application Specific Directory Services Scenarios.
- Application Development Scenarios.
- Extranet Access Management.
- X.500 / LDAP Directory Migration Scenarios.
- Deployment in Data centers & Perimeter networks (Branch Offices, DMZs)
AD LDS Users and Groups
- AD LDS authenticates the identity of users, who are represented by AD LDS user objects.
- AD LDS allows the use of Windows Security principals from the local machine and
AD for access control. Authentication process for these user principles is redirected
to the local machines and AD respectively.
- Four detail groups: Administrators, Instances, Readers, and Users.
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AD LDS Tools
- ADSchemaAnalyzer
Helps migrate the AD schema to AD LDS, from one AD LDS instances to another, or
from my LDAP compilant directory to an AD LDS instance.
- Active Directory to AD LDS Synchronizer
Command line tools that synchronizes data from an AD forest to a configuration set
of an AD LDS instance.
- Snapshot Browser
uses LDAP clients to bind to VSS snapshot taken by NTDSUTIL and view read only instance
of AD LDS databases.
- Active Directory Sites and Services
Assists in administrating AD LDS replication topology.
- Install from Media (IFM)
IFM can also be used to install on AD LDS instance from backup media.
AD LDS Platform Support
Ad LDS is a Windows Server 2008 role.
AD LDS Access Control
uses ACLs on directory objects to determine which objects user can access.
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Replication Overview
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AD LDS instances replicates data based on participation in a configuration set
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The AD LDS instances in a configuration set can host all or a subset of the application
partitions in the configuration set.
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AD LDS replication and schedule is independent from Active Directory.
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A configuration set is a group of AD LDS instances that replicate data with each
other.
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A single server machine can run multiple AD LDS instances.
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One AD LDS instance can belong to just one configuration set.
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Contact our Active Directory consulting team for details on how we can leverage
this technology for your business.
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