What is an AD LDS partition?

The Application Data Partition is where user, group, etc. objects are stored. It can provide an effective boundary between partitions, and is useful for SharePoint when using a single AD LDS instance with multiple customers that must remain isolated from each other.

What does AD LDS mean?

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service that provides flexible support for directory-enabled applications, without the dependencies and domain-related restrictions of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

What is ad bind account?

Anonymous access to the Active Directory is not allowed, so a bind account is needed. It is simply an account for Active Directory that has read ability on the attribute to which the user will authenticate.

What is AD LDS used for?

AD LDS is a mode of Active Directory that provides directory services for applications. AD LDS provides dedicated directory services for applications. It provides a data store and services for accessing the data store. It uses standard application programming interfaces (APIs) for accessing the application data.

How does AD LDS authentication work?

AD LDS automatically transfers the login of a user on an AD LDS instance with user name and password to the AD domain which contains the actual user account (redirected). In other words, AD LDS is using the domain part of the user SID to determine the corresponding AD domain of the current user object.

What is LDAP bind authentication?

Simple bind authentication is the most common way to authenticate LDAP clients. In a simple bind, the client either binds anonymously, that is, with an empty bind DN, or by providing a DN and a password. Directory Proxy Server binds to a data source to validate the credentials and to authenticate the client.

What is LDAP bind credentials?

Bind operations are used to authenticate clients (and the users or applications behind them) to the directory server, to establish an authorization identity that will be used for subsequent operations processed on that connection, and to specify the LDAP protocol version that the client will use.