Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server covers Active Directory, what Microsoft calls the "next generation of Directory Services." Active Directory provides a single point of administration for Windows 2000 users and administrators. In NT 4, Directory Services were tools for organizing and managing certain objects in a computing system. Those objects are comprised of printers, documents, databases, email addresses, users and other resources.
Active Directory was created to handle the more complex objects of a networked environment. In addition to these objects, Active Directory will manage naming, querying, administrative, registration, and resolution needs.
Includes coverage of vendor-specific implementations of Active Directory (such as Cisco and Oracle)
Covers an integral part of the operating system and drills down to cover the directory services of Windows 2000
Topics covered include:
Windows 2000 Support for open standards, DNS, and LDAP
Support for standard name formats
The Active Directory API
Drag-and-drop administration
Extensible schema
The global catalog
Backward compatibility with previous versions of NT 4
* Interoperability with NetWare
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