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Identity & Security · 7 min read

IAM Chapter 6, Part 4: The Shape of It

Forest, domain, OU, site: which Active Directory boundaries are real, and which only look it. Plus GPO, the five products called Active Directory, and why a DMZ gets its own directory.

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Read post →Oct 29, 2026

Identity & Security · 6 min read

IAM Chapter 6, Part 5: Reading the List

Kerberos used the master list to look up keys. LDAP is how an application reads the same list: the tree, the address, the rulebook, and the two operations that are most of LDAP.

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Read post →Oct 28, 2026