Windows .NET Server 2003 Domains And Active Directory

This book will be useful for those administrators who currently work with Windows 2000 domains and for those who are planning to deploy Active Directory on Windows .NET servers. For an administrator, the new version of Active Directory does not have any new principle features, and all options that are only available on Windows .NET servers are specifically described in the book. Therefore, an administrator can deal with any version of Active Directory domains and compare the working environment's features with those that were on the old platform.

One probably would not even consider repairing a defective car or a complex electronic device without special additional tools and facilities. Nonetheless, administrators who work with Active Directory often forget that the problems which come up in the process of working with Active Directory are also impossible to eliminate without the help of the appropriate tools and utilities. Most of the tools that you need for working with Active Directory (and that are looked at in this book) are furnished along with the system, and are found in the Windows Support Tools pack. This book is dedicated, to a large extent, to working with exactly these tools. A few tools and scripts from the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit are also considered, since they work properly in the Windows .NET environment.

Besides, the author would like to turn administrators' attention to methods of program access to Active Directory, and in part to scripts that use the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). Scripts can be used to solve many administrative tasks, and you may use already written scripts after a minimal number of modifications to fit your needs. Creating scripts does not require you to be a highly qualified programmer — a fact which the author tried to get across in the last two chapters of the book.

This book is geared towards a relatively prepared reader, one who has already had some experience working with Windows 2000, and is familiar with the basic work methods and components of the system (e.g., with Microsoft Management Console snap-ins). However, information on these questions can easily be found in the Help system.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - LDAP Basics
Chapter 02 - Active Directory Terminology and Concepts
Chapter 03 - Domain Name System (DNS) as Main Naming Service
Chapter 04 - Windows .NET DNS Server
Chapter 05 - Installing Active Directory
Chapter 06 - Configuring and Troubleshooting Active Directory Domains
Chapter 07 - Domain Manipulation Tools
Chapter 08 - Common Administrative Tasks
Chapter 09 - General Characteristics and Purpose of System Tools
Chapter 10 - Diagnosing and Maintaining Domain Controllers
Chapter 11 - Verifying Network and Distributed Services
Chapter 12 - Manipulating Active Directory Objects
Chapter 13 - Migration and Directory Reorganization Tools
Chapter 14 - Security Tools
Chapter 15 - Group Policy Tools
Chapter 16 - Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)
Chapter 17 - Scripting Administrative Tasks

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