Univention Corporate Server offers extensive functions for joint operation with Microsoft Active Directory domains. In the same way as the Microsoft Windows domain, UCS constructs a trust context in the form of a UCS domain, the objects of which, e.g., users, groups and computers, are saved in the OpenLDAP directory service.
The UCS component Active Directory Connector establishes a connection between UCS and Active Directory allowing synchronisation of directory service objects between Microsoft Active Directory and the OpenLDAP directory in UCS, permitting them to be run optionally in both environments.