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What sort of query does it use? &nbsp;Bear in mind that even a simple LDAP query means your Active Directory data is available outside of your network.<br />
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What sort of query does it use?  Bear in mind that even a simple LDAP query means your Active Directory data is available outside of your network.



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i have a certain service that gets/needs to connect to AD to get the users that can access to the services. This services is on a different machine, outside the domain of AD (different ISP).<br />
this means that AD needs to be availible for the outside world. What kind of protection can i use to make this a secure process? is ssl prossible? other ideas?
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i have a certain service that gets/needs to connect to AD to get the users that can access to the services. This services is on a different machine, outside the domain of AD (different ISP).
this means that AD needs to be availible for the outside world. What kind of protection can i use to make this a secure process? is ssl prossible? other ideas?

connect to AD from different environment

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.