Active Directory Active directory is a service created by Microsoft for the Domain Networks. This service is to manage permissions & access to to networked resources. Active Directory Domain services (AD DS) is one of the main service , which stores directory information & manages the interaction between user & domain. Ad has user accounts, host names & group policies.user accounts are used to login to computers will be connected to this domain. The group policies used to apply different access & permissions to all the computers or users are on this domain. What is a Domain ? Domain is computer network that has user accounts, group policies,computers & printers. All the computers on a network connected to a domain which we used to login to & it considered as the centralized location for each component. In the terms of networking, a domain has user group, devices, workstations, printers,database servers & computers that share various ...