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Active Directory For Dummies
Active Directory, a fundamental component of Windows 2000, is revolutionizing the way people design and manage networks. Whether you are a savvy system administrator or are new to networking and information technology, Active Directory For Dummies helps you understand this wonderful new operating system technology.
This unpretentious resource presents the fundamentals of Active Directory and then moves right into planning, implementing, and managing it. Active Directory For Dummies offers a clear explanation of the program and a cataloging of its benefits and buzzwords. Explore the following topics in easy-to-understand language:
* Prepare your environment for a shift to Active Directory.
* Consider logical structure issues like planning the DNS namespace, designing the tree, and defining an organizational unit (OU) model.
* Build a model of an Active Directory domain and create your first objects.
* Migrate from an existing environment to an Active Directory environment.
* Manage security, users, resources, and replication traffic within the Active Directory tree.
* Understand how the Active Directory Services Interface works with other Microsoft technology.
Active Directory For Dummies also includes cool Web links for information on the program as well as a special section on troubleshooting common problems that may arise during installation and operation of Active Directory. The enclosed CD-ROM offers you 60-day test-drive versions of Visio Professional and Visio Enterprise as well as trial versions of Entevo DirectMigrate2000, EtherPeek 4.0, EtherHelp, TokenPeek, and TokenHelp.
This unpretentious resource presents the fundamentals of Active Directory and then moves right into planning, implementing, and managing it. Active Directory For Dummies offers a clear explanation of the program and a cataloging of its benefits and buzzwords. Explore the following topics in easy-to-understand language:
* Prepare your environment for a shift to Active Directory.
* Consider logical structure issues like planning the DNS namespace, designing the tree, and defining an organizational unit (OU) model.
* Build a model of an Active Directory domain and create your first objects.
* Migrate from an existing environment to an Active Directory environment.
* Manage security, users, resources, and replication traffic within the Active Directory tree.
* Understand how the Active Directory Services Interface works with other Microsoft technology.
Active Directory For Dummies also includes cool Web links for information on the program as well as a special section on troubleshooting common problems that may arise during installation and operation of Active Directory. The enclosed CD-ROM offers you 60-day test-drive versions of Visio Professional and Visio Enterprise as well as trial versions of Entevo DirectMigrate2000, EtherPeek 4.0, EtherHelp, TokenPeek, and TokenHelp.
408 pages, Paperback
First published January 5, 2000
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November 29, 2022
Its greatest thing since sliced bread
When Microsoft took an elegant simple schema from UNIX and redesigned it into a convoluted might mare called “Active Directory” it was time for this book. Turns out that “Active Directory” is not active or a directory; who would have guessed? Well, this book starts you off with correcting concepts and even lets you know that with the new terminology that the definition of “domain” has been changed.
A lot of time Dummies books are too busy being cute; this one however is so packed with helpful information that it does not have time to be cute. This book takes you from ground zero to up and running while helping avoid common pitfalls.
When Microsoft took an elegant simple schema from UNIX and redesigned it into a convoluted might mare called “Active Directory” it was time for this book. Turns out that “Active Directory” is not active or a directory; who would have guessed? Well, this book starts you off with correcting concepts and even lets you know that with the new terminology that the definition of “domain” has been changed.
A lot of time Dummies books are too busy being cute; this one however is so packed with helpful information that it does not have time to be cute. This book takes you from ground zero to up and running while helping avoid common pitfalls.
July 10, 2011
Seemed pretty decent - still a lot of high level language. But it is high level subject matter.
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May 14, 2013useful - filled in the gaps!
December 5, 2018
Without a copy of active directory in front of me it's hard to ascertain the value here, I felt like I learned that there wasn't that much to learn, I think my intent here was to couple it with programmatic access, which was not covered.
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