Difference LDAP vs Active Directory | How does LDAP work? How Active Directory work? What is LDAP ?
active directory is the directory service database to store the organizational based data,policy,authentication etc whereas ldap is the protocol used to talk to the directory service database that is ad or adam. ... AD & ADSI is a COM wrapper around the LDAP layer, and is Windows specific.
How does LDAP work with Active Directory?
Active Directory is a Microsoft product used to organize IT assets like users, computers, and printers. It integrates with most Microsoft Office and Server products.
Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) is a protocol, not a service. LDAP is used to talk to and query several different types of directories (including Active Directory).
What Is Active Directory?
Microsoft creates a lot of IT software, from Windows desktops to Windows Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, and more.
In the IT environment, users don’t want to use a separate password for each application they access. And IT admins want to be able to group people together and manage access to computers and printers.
Active Directory was created to ease the management of users and computers by storing information about them in a single directory.
Imagine working at a company without a directory:
You would have to keep providing a username and password for each application.
IT admins would have to manually assign you to every single application you need to access.
If you update your password or change your last name, you would have to do that in every application in which you have an account.
The directory brings together, in a central service, information about all the people, computers, and other assets in the organization. It also stores credentials (like your username and password) so it can authenticate you to all the applications you use.
In Active Directory, assets are sorted into one of three tiers.
Domains: Users (such as employees) and devices (such as computers) that share the same Active Directory database are part of a domain. A domain is usually associated with either a company or an organization in a company, like the “Engineering Domain.”
Trees: Trees define the trust between domains, deciding who can access what in different parts of an organization, and letting IT admins manage their own community of users and devices.
Forests: For large organizations or intercompany relationships, domains are grouped into forests. Inter-forest trust is usually developed after a company acquires another company. Employees in both organizations need to access each other's resources.
Each one of these levels has access rights and communication privileges unique to it.
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