Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Allen, Robbie; Hunter, Laura E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059610202X ISBN 13: 9780596102029

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2006

Synopsis

If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for Active Directory and updated for Window Server 2003 SP1 and R2 versions.

The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you're likely to encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), ADAM, multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. Author Robbie Allen, a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, MVP for Directory Services, and co-author of Active Directory, Third Edition and Laura E. Hunter, MVP for Windows Server-Networking and author of several books, have based this collection of troubleshooting recipes on their own experience, along with input from Windows administrators. Each recipe includes a discussion explaining how and why the solution works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.

This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The recipes include:

• creating domains and trusts
• renaming a domain controller
• finding users whose passwords are about to expire
• applying a security filter to group policy objects
• checking for potential replication problems
• restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries
• viewing DNS server performance statistics

This Cookbook is a perfect companion to Active Directory, Third Edition, the tutorial that experts hail as the best source for understanding Microsoft's directory service. While Active Directory provides the big picture, Active Directory Cookbook gives you quick solutions you need to cope with day-to-day dilemmas. Together, these books supply the knowledge and tools so you can get the most out of Active Directory to manage users, groups, computers, domains, organizational units, and security policies on your network.

About this title

About the Author

Robbie Allen is a technical leader at Cisco Systems, where he has been involved in the deployment of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and several network management solutions. He enjoys working on Unix and Windows, and his favorite programming language is Perl. Robbie was named a Windows Server MVP in 2004 and 2005 for his contributions to the Windows community and the publication of several popular O'Reilly books. Robbie is currently studying at MIT in its system design and management program. For more information, see Robbie's web site at http://www.rallenhome.com.

Laura Hunter is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server-Networking, and holds the following certifications: CISSP, MCSE:Security, and MCDBA. She is a Senior IT Specialist with the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of several fine books on MCSE and security topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059610202X
• ISBN 13: 9780596102029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 992