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Microsoft Active Directory - Database structure
Les Entreprises Resolutions Enterprises - Cite This Source - This Definition - The Active Directory schema contains the definitions for all objects in the directory. Every new directory object created is validated against the appropriate object definition in the schema before being written to the directory. The schema is made up of object classes and attributes. The base (or default) schema contains a rich set of object classes and attributes to meet the needs of most organizations, and is modeled after the International Standards Organization (ISO) X.500 standard for directory services. Because it is extensible, you can modify and add classes and attributes to the base schema. See also: X.500
GuardianEdge Technologies - Cite This Source - This Definition - The definition of an entire database; the universe of objects that can be stored in the directory is defined in the schema. For each object class, the schema defines what attributes an instance of the class must have, what additional attributes it may have, and what object class can be a parent of the current object base. See also object, attribute.
Illinois State University - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Attribute, Attributes, Classes, Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), GUID, Object, Object identifier (OID), X.500
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Microsoft Active Directory - The schema directory partition holds the definitions for the type of data that can be held by the directory store. Both the Active Directory and ADAM services rely on the definitions in their respective schema partitions for maintaining data consistency. In addition, applications can refer to the schema partition to determine the type of data that the Active Directory forest or the ADAM instance allows. The schema can be extended to allow Active Directory and ADAM to hold data that is specific to a particular application. See also: partition
GuardianEdge Technologies - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Application Partition, Application partition (in Active Directory), Application partition (in ADAM), Configuration partition (in Active Directory), Configuration partition (in ADAM), Directory partition, Multi-master Replication, Multi-master replication (in Active Directory), Multi-master replication (in ADAM), partition, Replica
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Microsoft Active Directory - The security attributes or rules that are currently in effect. For example, the rules that govern what a user can do to a protected object are determined by security information in the user's access token and in the object's security descriptor. Together, the access token and the security descriptor form a security context for the user's actions on the object.
GuardianEdge Technologies - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Access Control Entry (ACE), Access Control List (ACL), access token, ACE, ACL, Delegation, Inheritance, Security descriptor, Token
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