The complete LDAP path that pins down exactly one object in Active Directory, for example CN=Server1,OU=Servers,DC=contoso,DC=com.
Also called DN.
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Terms in this definition
- Deployment modes
The two ways ARM can deploy: Incremental, the default, creates or updates what the template lists and ignores everything else; Complete also removes resource group contents absent from the template.
- LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, the standard way to bind to and query directories like Active Directory. In Azure it is provided by Entra Domain Services.
- PATH
Parent-child hierarchies in DAX rely on this function. For each row it builds one delimited text value listing the IDs of the row's ancestors, top level first and ending with the row's own ID, which PATHITEM, PATHLENGTH and friends can then pick apart.
- AD
Short for Active Directory, the directory service built into Windows Server (AD DS). Entra Connect synchronises on-premises forests to Microsoft Entra ID.
- COM
Windows component technology (Component Object Model); since App Service can't register COM components, apps relying on them must run on VMs.