This is a tutorial created by ManageEngine team of Zoho Corp to explain the Active Directory User objects and their important functionalities and properties that make each user unique inside a domain and also the meaning of the various attributes of Users to know purpose of the attributes and the activities of the Users which are controlled by those attributes.
what is Active Directory?
Active Directory stores all information and settings for a deployment in a central database. Active Directory allows administrators to assign policies, deploy and update software. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few computers, users and printers to tens of thousands of users, many different network domains and large server farms spanning many geographical locations