{"id":1191,"date":"2009-10-07T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=1191"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:25:05","slug":"ad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/directory\/ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Active Directory provides a convenient way to manage authentication and access control, as well as other information, for resources defined in the directory services.<\/p>\n<p>Boston University&#8217;s Active Directory is configured as a single forest and Exchange organization, covering academic and administrative needs across both campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Departments no longer need to purchase and maintain domain controllers. Domain controllers are centrally managed by IS&amp;T, monitored 24 by 7, and located in several geographic areas to provide redundancy and ensure reliability. Centrally maintained information is updated constantly and need not be duplicated by departments.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Authentication to resources such as individual and lab computers can be offered via the standard BU login name and Kerberos password, eliminating the need to create and maintain local accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Over 200,000 Security Groups are automatically maintained through synchronization with Boston University&#8217;s directory.<\/li>\n<li>Organizational Unit (OU) administrators can use these automatically maintained groups to control access to resources, such as computers and files.<\/li>\n<li>Security groups include those based on department affiliation; faculty, staff, or student status; academic major; and curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>Security Groups are maintained for each section of each course taught each semester; membership is updated daily as students add and drop courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">Prospective OU Administrators must review <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\" href=\"\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/directory\/ad\/intro\/\">introductory material<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\"> and then schedule a meeting with <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\" href=\"mailto:ad-admin@bu.edu\">IS&amp;T AD administrators<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\"> to create departmental OUs and OU Administrator accounts.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/directory\/ad\/intro\/\">introduction <\/a>for new OU administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Active Directory provides a convenient way to manage authentication and access control, as well as other information, for resources defined in the directory services. Boston University&#8217;s Active Directory is configured as a single forest and Exchange organization, covering academic and administrative needs across both campuses. Departments no longer need to purchase and maintain domain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2127,"featured_media":0,"parent":12571,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140193,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions\/140193"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}