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What is the use of ADDS in windows server operating system?

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Question added by Sijin Philip , IT Support Engineer , DFreight Shipping & Logistics
Date Posted: 2017/09/08

A server running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network - assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software.

Rubais Mukkattil
by Rubais Mukkattil , System Administrator , gulf international (gi)

ADDS is a server role in windows server OS, it stores information about the network resources.ADDS authenticate and authorized the domain network user login.

Matteo Sale
by Matteo Sale , Microsoft Consultant and RIS&PACS Technology Consultant , N&C SRL

Active Directory is a tool that allow to manage an entire architecture of users, computers, groups and other features. There are others tools and programs like Group Policy Object Management, DHCP Management and DNS Management that works in contact with Active Directory for a most complete view of the structure.

ADDS (Active Directory DOmain Services)is Directory Service to distribute the shared resources to the requested clients in Domain controller environment, it is mainly using for Authentication and Authorisation purpose.

ADDS allows admins to manage and store information about resources from a network and application data, in a distributed database.

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