Each week, you'll have to post on at least three separate days to the Discussion. Each post should be of a high quality. Your first post should be made by Wednesday. By Sunday, 11:59 PM (Mountain), make high-quality posts on three separate days in the Discussion.

This weeks discussion focuses on the concept Active Directory and how it is used to centrally create and manage resources in a domain. Active Directory is a giant database listing all objects in a domain. Common objects are organizational units (OUs), user accounts, computer objects and groups. In this discussion forum we will focus on managing Active Directory objects. Please respond to all of the following prompts after completing this weeks reading assignments:

Susan is studying for her Microsoft Server certification exam and has some questions about Active Directory Domain Services.

How would you describe Active Directory Domain Services? How do you think an administrator benefits from implementing Active Directory Domain Services? When and what tasks can you delegate administrative control of an OU?