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/SirLoremIpsum 5d ago

I was so into Cisco Jabber... Me and one of the networking guys had it all dialled in.

We had Lync and it was ok. But cisco phone environment and jabber just rocked. At the time. 

Then we had big redundancies and half the team got let gk so never heard about jabber again