What is Active Directory?

[@uniquechannelnames]

I always greatly appreciate those who put out educational content for free. Thank you so much for your contribution!

[@yahyaabulhaj6840]

It's not free, they get paid later and that's great

[@nofalsegod4]

I have been in IT for a few years now but rarely do I study. This instructor does a really good job of breaking things down. I will subscribe.

[@ServerAcademy]

Thank you!!

[@blayx]

why do they not teach this in college???? i just got my bachelors in Information System and not once did they teach us Active Directory, ive been searching for jobs and 9/10 times the job requirements want u to know AD and now i gotta spend extra time learning AD that school did not invest us students in.

[@ServerAcademy]

Same

[@akshaytom5721]

Degrees are waste. They don't teach anything what is required for our job.

[@stan8851]

because college teacher dont know , they just teach things many years ago, and dont want update

[@plousho1947]

You didn't go to the right school.

[@haseebhaqaani2713]

You're right. They don't teach this in college!

[@ndyaarthurmartha8748]

Brilliant description. No messing around, no trying to sound smart. This is what active directory is and this is what it does I learned tons!!!! Thanks

[@hasmituchil5214]

Domain Controllers - A domain controller is a Windows server that has Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) installed and has been promoted to a domain controller in the forest. Domain controllers are the center of Active Directory -- they control the rest of the domain. I will outline the tasks of a domain controller below: holds the AD DS data store handles authentication and authorization services replicate updates from other domain controllers in the forest Allows admin access to manage domain resources

[@cameronslagle8784]

Totally new to IT. My father is a senior systems engineer and I decided to get into the field at 31. Definitely love this videos breakdown and would appreciate any good tips anyone has for a beginner like myself.

[@jahiemg9505]

Hey Cameron, how has it been ?

[@WamaziTech]

Hope it's been good, tbh the best way is to seek advice from people already in the field. And what's helped me in college is organizing sections of study.

[@9krpmlol]

I'm taking college courses for network administration and one of the classes is 'Windows Server OS'. I found this video very helpful when trying to understand what an active directory is. Just read through a whole chapter and didn't understand fully. As what others have said before, phenomenal teaching style. Thanks a ton you earned my sub!

[@kalMHe]

I watched quite a few videos on active directory, none of them is as good as yours. The fact that you've used diagrams makes it so easy for some one to have a clear picture of active directory. Thanks buddy!!

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@BL00DYME55]

My friend who works in a relatively large IT company got me a job interview for an entry level IT support position, which is in a couple of weeks. I'll be honest I'm a nervous wreck right now, cause so far my work experience consists of repairing Desktops, Laptops, Tablets and so on, not so much working with networks/servers/domains. I was told that at the very least I should have a basic grasp of AD, which I've never used in my life. Thank god I found this video, cause it made it so much easier to understand what AD is actually is used for.

[@0xdegen876]

2 months down the line. Hows everything going?

[@PaperFc]

6 month update?

[@saraibucciarelli1821]

Wonderful. Love how descriptive you are. I'm blind and this is perfect.

[@losxlakers]

This was a really great quick brief description of Active Directory. I’m looking forward to see what else this channel has to offer.

[@serbonkers4130]

Thank you sir. Im a poor boy trying to learn how to use active directory. Im using my phone only but i jave learned a lot from your videos.

[@crystalkearneyhennings743]

great videos, especially for those with little experience who need to understand fundamentals and how to treat real world scenarios. Thank you and please... do more of the basics!!!

[@umbutlikeya6436]

Your style of teaching is phenomenal

[@johnbryanmalate2190]

KZbin academy is the best than university. 🎉

[@j.hernandez6390]

I'm getting into IT, there's so much to learn! thank you for breaking it down for me :)

[@yolandabilal5318]

Thank you! I have been reading until my eyes bleed and this is short and to the basic point. Great job explaining the basic concept.

[@Chrisymcmb]

I'm taking Paul's course on Udemy or Windows Server! Good stuff

[@pmyster1]

Thank you Paul, this was very helpful. You explained the basics in an easy way to get the jist of it when ms docs becomes convoluted at times. My previous place of work didn’t use AD and the customers I dealt with rarely used it and now thanks to you I want to learn more AD.

[@ifeomaoforji5474]

the first imput i understood clearly without being confuse since i began my IT journey

[@himanful]

YOU ARE A REAL BLESSING ...THANK YOU

[@Robert-im2tl]

Thank you instructor Paul for this quick, understandable video 🙌🎉👏

[@chiedozienabangwo3680]

simple and understandable description of AD for beginners

[@victorjozwicki8179]

Easy to understand for something I haven't seen before. Thanks !

[@kulbhushan2200]

Superb!! Explained it very well for beginners.

[@NADICHANNEL]

Best explanation happens at 2:20

[@jaelski1217]

Opinion: You should've titled this "What is Active Directory Users and Computers?". Active Directory is very broad.

[@collin0898]

Thanks man. I was having trouble jogging my memory. I'm getting prepared for an interview, and this helped a ton.

[@oniplayz4967]

welp, this is super helpful for starters imma subscribe, great job mate! 🙂

[@cj1983utube]

thanks, that was helpful for my new job! :)

[@デク-b7j]

What job?

[@ARKHAMxMaverick]

Well done Paul, very easy to understand.

[@Sam-w4k2n]

Thank you for the video. So your website has a lab will I can practice using the active directory to see if I fully understand it and can master it's use for general purposes

[@ServerAcademy]

You're welcome! It does, it's completely free and I think you'll enjoy it.

[@ozeremre1337]

So is the creating user accounts resetting and changing user profiles on a website you made or on the actual computer login that you would find in colleges/workplaces and etc?

[@kpbizzle_gaming]

IT for LAfitness. Great explanation!

[@emabegum1308]

I subscribed! Thank you! Hope you make more videos like this🙌🙌💯💯👍🙏

[@matty301]

Do you have Help Desk Agent Level 1 tutorials? Great content!

[@vpreggie]

Let me get this straight - I can click “Help” to get quick access to Help files and manuals? Let me write this down.

[@raulsanchez4716]

Great explanation. Thank you.

[@Sabrina_NurNahar2010]

I used to have the Active directory full system's monitoring For CP and FSS group

[@nitesholi8645]

Thanks bro for amazing content

[@Mansijswarnkar]

great explaination

[@heshamosama1016]

Thank you so much , very clear and helpful . Please keep up the good work 💪

[@muhammadnoraiz615]

Which windows version you used in this tutorial ?

[@kenyayopp1653]

Thank you for this video! It took me a bit of research to really nail down what AD is, I'm taking Google IT Support and for some reason they just don't explain things well, not sure why! Your video was spot on! You have no idea! I appreciate this so much. You are a life saver. Quick question for you, why would 2 separate be in use? You mentioned @ 11:23 that 2 domain controllers are being used to control the system. If there are two domain controllers that means that there are two servers in use correct? Can there be more than two servers in use? If so, why? I'm not sure if you are still answering questions on this video as it's so old. Thank you!

[@JJFlores197]

In an ideal setup, you have redundancy. If you only have 1 domain controller, it will work. However, if that DC fails, say there's a power outage, the OS crashes, or the hardware fails, everything that relies on that DC will fail. That means that users may not be able to login or otherwise access the files they need. That's why there's redundancy. If you have multiple DC, you can setup fail over. So if your primary DC fails, a secondary DC takes over and your users can still login.

[@TheWestlondongent]

absolutely brilliant video.

[@pandu1994]

thank you for giving crystal clear info

[@vetribull8318]

Hi there, is there anyways to add printers under the ADLDS?. Your reply is very much appreciated

[@JacksonLloyd952]

Good stuff

[@stsfnaf.613]

Very helpful video.

[@matelitatuicakau7981]

Great Learning Video Mr Paul

[@hectorbartlett567]

Seldom do you find a video that actually ticks all the boxes ... a must see if you need a refresh!

[@cebutvwonderkids349]

Sir Question? That Server Manager found on Normal Computer Windows? or Just Only for Windows Server?

[@JJFlores197]

You can install it on non-Windows Server OS. You still need a Windows server setup first, though.

[@Lupin_Wulf]

Very informative thank you

[@MuhammadSoroya]

Wait, why would you have to reset the password for John 5000x? Why would John have 5000 computers? I don't understand this example. If "John" is just placeholder for 5000 different employees, then you would still need to reset the password for 5000 different employees if they needed it with or without AD.

[@GavinMcCloy]

yes but John might want to log on to every single computer, he would have seperate accounts for each of those 5000 computers, but instead the account is on the domain and setup with one set of credentials so he can log onto any computer using one set of credentials. :)

[@MuhammadSoroya]

@@GavinMcCloy oh ok that cleared things up. So if the network is down does productivity stop because a user cant get verified by the domain?

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks for answering this question Gavin. Muhammad to your second question - this is possible if you configure your domain to block caching of credentials with Group Policy. A user cannot log in for the first time if a domain cannot be contacted - but users who have logged into a PC before can log in even if the domain controllers are inaccessible IF you chose to allow caching of the accounts. Hope this helps. Subscribe for more content!

[@BelieveInGrim]

This really helped a lot thank you!

[@s3bus686]

Thank you for this video, greetings

[@officershabangu7094]

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[@h.rehaief3567]

Thank you very very much for this great amazing video!!

[@Abdulaziz-sf1cm]

Very useful thank you

[@IzludeTingel]

can anyone post a simple tutorial on file sharing for Win11 PCs on a home network without enabling SMB1? from what i've read, network neighborhood (the network tab in file explorer) has been depreciated for those using SMB3 and will not show networked PCs, they must do active directory and map network drives to the desktop instead.. or something.. would really appreciate a simple step by step process.

[@hamzapuris]

Great video, well explained. Thanks!

[@muhammadusman5521]

Suppose that we have a computer with a storage of 20 GB and now I connect it to a domain.... now there's a local user on the computer and a domain user... now the local user and domain user will have their own data who will use a 20 GB hard disk... does the domain user stores its data on the server or it uses the local storage....

[@blackandblackmusic]

Really sir u r great good

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks!!

[@alexwaller5603]

How would you implement an active directory in a small business? I work for a mortgage company that is currently using an msp and we are trying to start doing our own IT and move away from them. How would you recommend setting up and running our AD? About 40 employees in one location, but are about to open a second office. Do we need to purchase our own servers and run it in house, is there a way to do it in the cloud, maybe a vm, azure ad or azure ad ds?

[@namelessoverman]

Hey, any updates? Did you find a reasonable solution?

[@BeyondThe-b3v]

This video 🔥🔥. Thank you !

[@BadazzGregg]

Exactly what I was looking for thank you.

[@afommanuel]

Thank you Paul,this is very expanatory

[@raunakchaturvedi9518]

Very nice

[@adiflorense1477]

1:14 why companies prefer to keep user accounts in active directory instead of on the computer itself.

[@JJFlores197]

I know this is several months old. One of the main reasons is for scalability. If you have 100 employees, do you really want to go to every single computer in your company and create 100 user accounts? What if someone changes their password? It becomes impractical to manually do this on each computer. If you have just a handful of computers and users it may work, but it doesn't scale well. In contrast, with AD since everything is stored in a central location, any user on any computer in your company can login. You can even set things like login restrictions. Say for instance if you have certain computers you only want certain people to be able to use, you can restrict unauthorized users from being able to login to those particular systems, even if they have valid accounts. You can also do things like user/group based policies. If your marketing team (for instance) has certain printers in their department, you can set a group policy so that every person who is a member of the marketing group automatically gets those specific printers added to his/her system. That way, you don't have to manually install the printer on each computer.

[@adiflorense1477]

@@JJFlores197 Noted. Thank you sir

[@ravi0918]

Great videos

[@immunedalgregge]

Hi, the video is well made, thank you. I was just wondering who does work on 5,000 machines in a company? I believe 99% of employees work on one machine given to them by their company. So my question is releted with the John's machines. You say Johns has 5,000 computers and, through Active Directory, we can change his password at once time. But in the real world, who does have 5,000 computers?

[@mgdoao]

Very Informative, thanks.

[@Traymer7]

Nice video, thanks, btw I want to point out, it is not a best practice to use same name for internal domain and the website, escpecially if other people will be connected in the same network using the website

[@tsunamisantista6683]

fine stuff

[@apexedition1494]

My server with active directory/domain controller crashed .. And I have to format it... Although all PC connected to the domain is working fine and both the administrator user name and password is also working fine... But am afraid so how do I remove the domain from each users PC and not loose their profile and software installed

[@ramonlopeznote]

Great, thank you

[@OZTutoh]

Great video, thank you!

[@rz8648]

Thank you very much! Super helpful!

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[@cuddy90210]

Thank you.

[@blankaj8903]

Thanks for the video. Very well explained with examples when we should use AD :)

[@jkjqu6805]

really great vid

[@issamzgybi9761]

a very big thanks

[@nikhilsharma81]

in my server active director user and computers are not showing

[@blackandblackmusic]

Thanku soo much

[@andrewcbuensalida]

why does john use many computers though?

[@spades2394]

"If you are running into an issue, just go ahead and do yourself a favor and google the issue, you'll probably get results a lot faster" LMAO. Every IT in the World: EEEY!

[@Starmanfansunofficial]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Alex-UK369]

Thanks

[@georgeprot7206]

Thank you !

[@LokiahGr]

Thank you

[@Odskee]

If you've made it this far onto some kind of formal training and / or eduction, and finding concepts like @4:23 helpful then first of all, you're going to fail. Second, this probably isn't the career for you!

[@Velo1010]

And 5000 computers isn’t an exaggeration. The company I work for has probably three times that number.

[@CWLabs7209]

❤

[@merishav429]

My recover fail fail why?

[@josecobo7179]

Thanks!

[@joyganguly106]

sir i have problem to install active directory....plz u have any solution of this error problem----The local Administrator account becomes the domain Administrator account when you create a new domain. The new domain cannot be created because the local Administrator account password does not meet requirements. Currently, a password is not required for the local Administrator account. We recommend that you use the net user command-line tool with the /passwordreq:yes option to require a password for the account before you create the new domain; otherwise, a password will not be required for the domain Administrator account." plsss help me

[@somastic69]

For fucks sake. Everyone who wants to know about active directory knows what a godam exit button will do. Sorry. I'm quitting smoking.

[@atticusdeclan7924]

thank u sir

[@shashanksharma8069]

Thanx Paul for this video got lot of info about AD.