Question

discuss one of the services Windows offers. Give a quick description of the service, how to configure and enable it, whether the system uses it all the time, or just when you turn it on, and what your opinion is of the service. Does it do everything it needs to do for the user? What about ease of use?

Answer 1

First of all,Windows services are the core elements of the MS O.S that enable the creation and management of long running processes.

We discuss the service named Active Directory Service.

Active Directory Service is in the charge of centralized domain management and directory based identity related services.In other words,an Active Directory Service provides methods for storing directory data and making it available for networks users and admin,such as ADDS(Active Directory Domain Services).ADS was introduced with Windows Server 2000 but is also included as service for other windows O.S.

I will just brief the conffigurations steps

1.Log in as admin in Windows 2000 or 2003 server host.

2.Goto Start->Adiminstrative Tools->Manage Your Server.

i.On the Manage Your Server Wizard,select Adding Roles to Your Server.

ii.Then select Domain Controller. and accept the default values and continue until Report DNS Issue window is displayed.

iii.Select Install and Configure DNS and continue.

3.Install the Active Directory Domain Controller.

4.Install Windows Support Tools.

5.Create a new user account.

i.Goto Start menu-> Progrmas-> Administration Tools.

ii.Select Active Directory Users and Computers.

iii.Create a new account by giving a new user and create the user.

iv.Check whether the Kerberos ticket is returned by the Kerberous Authentication Server Properly.

6.Create a user account ot map the Kerberos Service

i.Start->Programs->Administration Tools

ii.Select Active Directory Users and Computers

iii.Use the "ktpass" command to associate this user account with a service principal

iv.Export the keytab file and copy it to the system where OpenSSO Enterprise is installed.

It runs when we launch or run it.

It does its job pretty fair enough but there are shortcoming which are over come by the new generation technology,Directory-as-a-service.

Implementation is a bit tedious task.