Microsoft Active Directory Administration (Sams White Book Series)

✍ Scribed by Kevin Kocis

• Publisher: Sams
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn the role of Kerberos, ACL's, Security ID's, IPSec, and PKI in Active Directory security.Presents timesaving administrative features offered by Windows 2000 Active Directory and how to implement effective strategies.

✦ Table of Contents

Microsoft® Active Directory Administration......Page 2
Copyright © 2001 by Sams Publishing......Page 3
Overview......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 14
CHAPTER 1 Understanding Active Directory......Page 16
Major Technical Features of Active Directory......Page 17
Major Components of Active Directory......Page 27
NT 4.0 Versus Windows 2000......Page 30
Active Directory Compared to Novell 5......Page 32
Summary......Page 36
CHAPTER 2 Active Directory Architecture......Page 38
Subsystem Architecture......Page 39
Directory Service Architecture......Page 41
Protocols, Interfaces, and Services to Active Directory......Page 44
Logical Structure Fundamentals......Page 46
Physical Structure Fundamentals......Page 57
Summary......Page 69
CHAPTER 3 Managing Domains, Trusts, and DNS......Page 72
Domain Fundamentals......Page 73
Managing Trusts......Page 77
Name Resolution in Active Directory......Page 81
Integrating DNS and Active Directory......Page 93
Heterogeneous Environments......Page 100
DNS and WINS......Page 110
DHCP in Active Directory......Page 111
Summary......Page 118
CHAPTER 4 Managing Users, Groups, and Computers......Page 120
Object Management Fundamentals......Page 121
Managing Users......Page 123
Managing User Profiles and Home Directories......Page 130
Managing Groups......Page 133
Managing Computer Accounts......Page 146
Summary......Page 151
CHAPTER 5 Active Directory Security......Page 152
The Active Directory Security Model......Page 153
Object-Oriented Security......Page 168
Active Directory Object Security......Page 173
Publishing Active Directory Resources......Page 177
Summary......Page 182
CHAPTER 6 Administering Group Policy......Page 184
Group Policy Fundamentals......Page 185
Summary......Page 215
CHAPTER 7 Managing and Modifying Active Directory Schema......Page 216
Active Directory Schema Fundamentals......Page 217
Schema Structure: Exploring the Directory Information Tree......Page 219
Schema Modification......Page 225
Deactivating Schema Objects......Page 236
Summary......Page 237
CHAPTER 8 Managing Sites, Replication, and Network Traffic......Page 238
Site Topology Fundamentals......Page 239
Active Directory Replication Model......Page 252
Replication Topology......Page 257
Summary......Page 262
CHAPTER 9 Managing Updates with Flexible Single-Master Operations......Page 264
Flexible Single-Master Fundamentals......Page 265
Operations Master Roles and Placement......Page 266
Controlling Role Transfers......Page 284
Controlling Role Seizures......Page 285
Operations Masters Troubleshooting......Page 286
Summary......Page 291
CHAPTER 10 Active Directory Reliability and Optimization......Page 292
Active Directory Backup......Page 293
Performing an Active Directory Backup......Page 294
Active Directory Restore......Page 297
Monitoring Active Directory Performance......Page 308
Summary......Page 325
APPENDIX A Common Active Directory Utilities......Page 326
Comma-Separated Value Directory Exchange (CSVDE)......Page 327
LDAP Data Interchange Format Directory Exchange (LDIFDE)......Page 329
Movetree......Page 332
INDEX......Page 334