List of Active Directory Services in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Server

In Windows 2008 servers, Active Directory Services includes below services:

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
Active Directory Rights Management Service permits you to identify which access is given to others (open, read, modify, etc.) . You can make use of this access to secure e-mail messages, documents as well as internal websites.
Refer this article for step by step configuration of AD RMS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753531(v=ws.10).aspx

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services allows directory enabled applications to store and retrieve information without needing the dependencies AD DS requires.
Refer this article for step by step configuration of AD LDS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731246(v=ws.10).aspx

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
Active Directory Federation Services provides users the ability to do a single sign-on as well as accessing other networks without requiring a secondary password.
Refer this article for step by step configuration of AD FS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731443(v=ws.10).aspx

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
Active Directory Certificate Services permits administrator to configure services for issuing and managing public key certificates.
Refer this article for step by step configuration of AD CS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772393(v=ws.10).aspx


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