AD Certificate Services on Windows Server 2019

Tidal Media Inc. presents pre-configured for quick deployment on Azure - Active Directory Domain Services server role, which allows you to create a scalable, secure, and manageable infrastructure for user and resource management, and provide support for directory-enabled applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server.

AD Certificate Services provides a distributed database that stores and manages information about network resources and application-specific data from directory-enabled applications. Administrators can use AD Certificate Services to organize elements of a network, such as users, computers, and other devices, into a hierarchical containment structure. The hierarchical containment structure includes the Active Directory forest, domains in the forest, and organizational units (OUs) in each domain.

Additional AD Certificate Service features include the following:

• A set of rules, the schema, that defines the classes of objects and attributes that are contained in the directory, the constraints and limits on instances of these objects, and the format of their names.
• A global catalog that contains information about every object in the directory. Users and administrators can use the global catalog to find directory information, regardless of which domain in the directory actually contains the data.
• A query and index mechanism, so that objects and their properties can be published and found by network users or applications.
• A replication service that distributes directory data across a network. All writable domain controllers in a domain participate in replication and contain a complete copy of all directory information for their domain. Any change to directory data is replicated to all domain controllers in the domain.
• Operations master roles (also known as flexible single master operations or FSMO). Domain controllers that hold operations master roles are designated to perform specific tasks to ensure consistency and eliminate conflicting entries in the directory.