What is Active Directory Administrator
The Active Directory Administrator, as a product, is a one-stop solution to monitor and manage the service accounts in your domain.
The following section describes the terms and entities used in the context of the product:
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Domain: A domain refers to a collection of resources such as users, computers, printers, that are mapped to one Active Directory. A domain can have multiple child domains.
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Service Account: A service account is a non-user account that is created in the Active Directory. It is associated with one or more Windows services, enabling them to run on the windows operating systems. It establishes their access and permission levels to the local and network resources, including the Active Directory.
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Services: Services are the Windows services running and interacting in a Windows domain.
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Service Account activity: Activity of a service account refers to the account managing the objects of the Active Directory or modifications being made to the account.
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Service Account without activity: A service account without activity indicates that it has not made any modifications to the objects of the Active Directory and that modifications have not been made on the service account.
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Service Account modifications: Service account modifications refers to the number of modifications that it does to the user objects of the Active Directory or the number of modifications done to the service account.