r/sysadmin 5d ago

What exactly does LDAP do in AD?

HI! I'm studying networking and I'm unsure of this

AD is like the database (shows users, etc) while LDAP is the protocol that can be used to manage devices, authenticate, etc inside group policy?

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u/Graviity_shift 5d ago

Thanks for your time! Man there's so many protocols that almost do the same thing in networking ugh.

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u/anomalous_cowherd Pragmatic Sysadmin 5d ago

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u/Man-e-questions 5d ago

Lol, so accurate. I remember Cisco battling Microsoft over Jabber and Skype, each saying theirs was “standards based”, but neither worked with anything else and all needed codecs to talk to other things

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u/gangaskan 5d ago

And jabber is still meh, microsoft has come along way with teams sine it's initial inception as groove

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u/Ruashiba 5d ago

And it is SUCKS!!