Implementing Directory Services

This book gives you all the information you'll need for smart and strategic implementation of directory services, on both the business and technical sides. There is a lot more to directory services than just LDAP, and this important resource provides a guide to the various standards available, including LDAP, X.500, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and Directory Enabled Networks (DEN), as well as the vendor products available today, including Microsoft Active Directory, Novell NDS, and Netscape DS.

Inside you'll find:

• Instructions for implementing a directory service
  
• How to choose the best set of directory service offerings through definition, discovery, design, deployment, and maintenance
  
• Complete business justification for directory services and real world case studies
  
• CD-ROM that includes demos and utilities from the major players in directory services
  

Table of contents

Preface

Foreword

Part 1: Understanding Directory Services

Chapter 1: Implementing Directory Services

Chapter 2: Types of Directories

Chapter 3: The Business of Directory Sercices

Chapter 4: A Sample Directory Service Project

Chapter 5: Security and Directory Services

Chapter 6: The Future of Directories

Part 2: Implementing Directory Services

Chapter 7: Overview

Chapter 8: Discovery

Chapter 9: Design

Chapter 10: Deployment

Chapter 11: Maintenance and Ctended Functionality

Chapter 12: The Issues List

Chapter 13: The Top Ten List

Chapter 14: Developing with Directory Services

Part 3: Took Kit

Chapter 15: Industry Groups and Organizations

Chapter 16: Analyst and Research Organizations

Chapter 17: Consulting Services

Chapter 18: Tools

Index