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Active Directory is a database of users, groups, computers, printers, and other objects. Windows uses Active Directory to organize the objects together into domains and larger forests. These are managed by domain controllers. Common platforms for domain controllers include Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016.
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The first time PowerShell is asked for help, it will prompt the user for permission to download additional help data online; without it, PowerShell only provides partial help. To manually download the online help data, from PowerShell, run PS C:\Users\Administrator> update-help.
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If that is not a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
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O’Leary, M. (2019). Active Directory. In: Cyber Operations. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4294-0_6
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