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Explain practical uses of Active Directory.
What is printer server?

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Last Update: March 25, 2009 Asked by: Vikas Srivastava

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September 06, 2007 11:00:46

amarjeet7

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RE: Explain practical uses of Active Directory.W...

Active directory As per name its the directory of active objects in you Domain. Active directory first time introduced in windows 2000 family In active directory we can maintain all user records printer computer groups OU records. through active directory we can easily maintained or controlled all the domain resources. Active directory installed when you configure your server as Domain server.

Printer Server ( In My words) On which machine printer attached physically and shared for everyone and you can speciy permission and priority settings as per environment. Through printer we can kept records like printing copies per user on many things.

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March 25, 2009 22:45:36

vinitogupta

Member Since: February 2007 Contribution: 17

RE: Explain practical uses of Active Directory.What is printer server?

Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active Directory allows administrators to assign enterprise-wide policies deploy programs to many computers and apply critical updates to an entire organization. An Active Directory stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central organized accessible database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few hundred objects to a large installation with millions of objects

Print Server is a thin server hardware device or software application that connects and shares a printer to a network. They contain some form of buffer holding the information to be printed. The typical usage references a dedicated device. High volume print servers include disk storage to increase their buffer capability.

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