By giving you a thorough grounding in Active Directory, this bestselling book teaches you how to design, manage, and maintain an AD infrastructure, whether it's for a small business network or a multinational enterprise with thousands of resources, services, and users. The fourth edition covers Active Directory from Windows 2000 through Windows Server 2008 in an easy-to-understand narrative style. COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Workstation To help you take full advantage of Active Directory, this fourth edition of this bestselling book gives you a thorough grounding in Microsoft's network directory service. With Active Directory, you'll learn how to design, manage, and maintain an AD infrastructure, whether it's for a small business network or a multinational enterprise with thousands of resources, services, and users.This detailed and highly accurate volume covers Active Directory from its origins in Windows 2000 through Windows Server 2008. But unlike typical dry references, Active Directory presents concepts in an easy-to-understand, narrative style. With this book, you will:Get a complete review of all the new Windows 2008 featuresLearn how Active Directory works with Exchange and PowerShellTake advantage of the updated scripting and programming chapters to automate AD tasksLearn how to be more efficient with command-line toolsGrasp concepts easily with the help of numerous screenshots and diagramsIdeal for administrators, IT professionals, project managers, and programmers alike, Active Directory is not only for people getting started with AD, it's also for experienced users who need to stay up-to-date with the latest AD features in Windows Server 2008. It is no wonder this guide is the bestselling AD resource available. Active Directory basics: A brief introduction ; Active Directory fundamentals ; Naming contexts and application partitions ; Active Directory schema ; Site topology and replication ; Active Directory and DNS ; Read-only domain controllers ; Group Policy primer ; Fine-grained password policies Designing an Active Directory infrastructure: Designing the namespace ; Creating a site topology ; Designing organization-wide Group Policies ; Active Directory security: permissions and auditing ; Designing and implementing schema extensions ; Backup, recovery, and maintenance ; Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 ; Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 R2 ; Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 ; Integrating Microsoft Exchange ; Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (a.k.a. ADAM) Scripting Active Directory with ADSI, ADO, and WMI: Scripting with ADSI ; IADs and the property cache ; Using ADO for searching ; Users and groups ; Permissions and auditing ; Extending the schema and the Active Directory snap-ins ; Scripting with WMI ; Scripting DNS ; Programming the directory with the .NET Framework ; PowerShell basics ; Scripting Active Directory with PowerShell ; Scripting Basic Exchange 2003 tasks ; Scripting Basic Exchange 2007 tasks. 1. A brief introduction 2. Active directory fundamentals 3. Naming contexts and application partitions 4. Active directory schema 5. Site tipology and replication 6. Active directory and DNS 7. Read-only domain controllers 8. Group policy primer 9. Fine-grained password policies 10. Designing the namespace 11. Creating a site topology 12. Designing organization-wide group policies 13. Active directory security: permissions and auditing .. Completely updated, this text covers Active Directory from its origins in Windows 2000 to the present day with Windows 2008 and everything in between. Every chapter has scenarios that describe how to apply the content to a realistic set of scenarios Printing History January 2000 First Edition. April 2003 Second Edition.
