Could someone please explain LDAP?

Question

I often hear things like \"Can we load our employee info using LDAP?\" Yet, the title \"Lightweight Directory Access Protocol\" makes me think of it as a protocol rather than a

Answer 1

What is LDAP:

All LDAP is a communication protocol which Microsoft implemented for the Active directory directory service and is used for other NTDS.DIT files. Lets get the confusion out of the way. NTDS.DIT contains Active Directory database. To ACCESS the data base you need the communication protocol LDAP. Thats it. So again NTDS.DIT is a simple database i.e ADDS Database (Active Director Directory Services) How do we access it?

We access it using LDAP.

lets use LDAP quick example.
C:/users/data.doc

or

LDAP Syntax

CN=Bob,OU=Users,DC=Youtube,DC=Com

CN = Canonical Name (object or name)

OU = Organizational Unit (Folder in Active directory)

DC = Domain Controller (Where it is)

Other info: Active directory is database based on the X.500 Standard which contains all the AD object which is the NTDS.DIT file.