Understanding and Designing Your Active Directory Infrastructure

The book will give a brief summary of AD compared to NT 4.0 and NDS. Once the groundwork is established for AD, there will be discussions about how to implement the different components and objects within AD. After the AD is established, there will be a discussion about how AD will interact with the other network services, such as DNS, DHCP, and WINS, as well as how to properly plan for the AD infrastructure, including Group Policy Objects, Delegate Control, administrative concepts, and installation considerations. There will be tips on how to avoid the most common traps of designing and implementing AD infrastructures. The final chapter will give real world AD design examples that have been implemented by some of the largest and most well known companies in the industry.

Shannon Kalvar is a professional consultant with 10 years of infrastructure architecture and project-management experience. He has worked with federal and state governments, financial corporations, the health care industry, primary and secondary education, utility companies, non-profit organizations, and the occasional dot.com. Shannon currently lives in Longmont, CO, working as a project manager and occasional IT consultant. Questions for him can be directed to kalvars@msn.com.

Daniel Wilt has over eight years of network infrastructure and project management experience. Dan currently resides in Moorestown, NJ, with his wife, Susan, and son, Ethan.

Bob Bello currently works as a supervisor\LAN Admin III of ADP's EBS LAN division. His current environment consists of a mixture of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows 9x, AS/400 RISC, and Warp boxes. In addition, he has worked as a consultant and instructor for the past four years. During this time he has been involved in architecting various networks and presenting Novell CNA, Microsoft MCSE, SMS, Cisco CCNA, and Citrix CCA courses. Bob resides in Bellmawr, NJ.