Microsoft’s Active Directory serves as a central location for a company’s network administration and security. It is used both as a source of information on computers, users/specific groups of users, applications, services, files, distribution lists, and organizational units as a unified point which manages user roles and permissions. The application stores objects that provide information about the real things, i.e. assets, that exist in an organization’s network and that are associated with one or more domains. It then makes this information available to users and applications throughout the organization, making accessing online documents, digitized information, digital assets and data easier to access for end-users.