Active Directory Service Server Roles

Guys, a share on Windows 2008 Active Directory - you can now break down to roles, just setup whatever you need for Directory Services. Below are the breakdown. We will share more, this is only intro :)

ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services)
This server role enables creation and management of digitalcertificates for users, computers, and organizationsas part of a public key infrastructure.

ADDS (Active Directory Domain Services)
It's functionality has been carried forward into Windows Server 2008, along with an improved setup wizard. This also provide new management options for ADDS features such as read-only domain controllers (RODCs) - the hot topic in Windows 2008 AD.

ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services)
A feature that provides an identity access solution giving browser-based clients (inside or outside your network) single sign-on access to protected, Internet-facing applications.

ADLDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services)
A LDAP directory service provide the functionality that was provided byActive Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and provides data storage and retrieval for directory enabled applications, without the dependencies thatare required for ADDS. It also do not store security principle, which store by ADDS.

ADRMS (Active Directory Rights Management Services)
Works with Rights Management Services applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use. Organization can define exactly how a recipientcan use the information, such as who can open, modify, print, forward, or take other actions with the information. It can be applied directly to information such as financial reports, customer data, and e-mail messages!

RODC (Read Only Domain Controller)
A new type of domain controller in the Windows Server 2008 operating system. With an RODC, organizations can easily deploya domain controller in locations where physical security cannot be guaranteed. This solved lots of issues where we consult/discuss with our customer, which do not have security in branches offices. An RODC hosts a read-only replica of the database in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) for a given domain. The RODC is also capable of running the Global Catalog Role! Cool huh? We will focus only to RODC in next few postings.

Happy Reading.