Helpful Benefits that Simplify Network Management
Each Active Directory provides unique benefits that enable you to manage the identities and relationships that make up your organization's network:
Active Directory Domain Services
- Lower costs of managing Windows networks
- Simplify identity management by providing a single view of all user information
- Boost security with the ability to enable multiple types of security mechanisms within a single network
- Improve compliance by using Active Directory as a primary source for audit data
Active Directory Rights Management Services
- Augment your organization’s security strategy by protecting information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information, no matter where it is moved.
- Help prevent sensitive information—such as financial reports, product specifications, customer data, and confidential email messages—from intentionally or accidentally getting into the wrong hands.
Active Directory Federation Services
- Simplify User Access by helping users navigate multiple logons, manage different personas and control information sharing
- Streamline Access Management and Security by enabling easier collaboration between organizations via automated federation tools
- Help enable users, applications, and systems to work better together, regardless of location of architecture
Active Directory Certificate Services
- Reduce cost of ownership by taking advantage of Active Directory integration for enrollment, store, and revocation processes, including support for multi forest deployments in Windows Server 2008 R2
- Streamline deployment by enrolling user and computer certificates without user intervention
- Increase access security with better security than username and password solutions, and the ability to verify the validity of certificates using the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
- Simplify certificate and smart card management through integration with Forefront Identity Manager