What does ActiveDirectory provide above sharing password protected files, which windows has anyway?

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Published on 2010-03-24T14:35:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 14:43 UTC
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I'm quite new to this so I'm trying to figure out the reason for ActiveDirectory existing in the first place.

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