Active Directory

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-und.

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…