Mastering Active Directory

Carefully distinguishing between marketing hype and technical reality, the author tells you what you need to know to implement ADS effectively in your network and how you can expect to benefit from ADS.

Coverage includes:

• Understanding network directories

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: The Background and History of Network Directories

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Directories

Chapter 2: Anatomy of a Directory

Chapter 3: The X.500 Recommendations

Chapter 4: Accessing the Directory

Part II: Microsoft Active Directory Services

Chapter 5: Microsoft NT without ADS

Chapter 6: Microsoft NT with ADS

Chapter 7: Alphabet Soup: ADS, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS

Chapter 8: Building the Active Directory Tree

Chapter 9: Implementing Your Design

Chapter 10: Securing the Active Directory Database

Chapter 11: Implementing Group Policies

Chapter 12: Modifying the Active Directory Schema

Chapter 13: Understanding and Controlling ADS Sites and Replication

Part III: The Future of Active Directory Services

Chapter 14: ADS and BackOffice

Chapter 15: ADS and Third-Party Products

Chapter 16: Directory-Enabled Networks (DENs)

Appendix A

Index

• Getting familiar with the X.500 recommendations
  
• Working with LDAP
  
• Working with domains in an ADS system
  
• Synchronizing databases across domains
  
• Understanding object naming in ADS
  
• Integrating NT 4 domain services with ADS
  
• Ensuring security in an ADS environment
  
• Administering a network under ADS
  
• Working with ADS tools
  
• Designing an ADS structure
  
• Controlling network traffic
  
• Designing a Directory Enabled Network (DEN)