Windows 2000 Active Directory Black Book

Provides immediate solutions to the challenges of working with the most important feature of Windows 2000: Active Directory. Features detailed coverage of Active Directory security, auditing, and integration with existing applications. Explores distributed security applications such as Kerberos. Covers features such as IntelliMirror, application specification, terminal services, mobile devices, and more.

Summarizes the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) APIs and lookup protocols. Explains how Windows 2000's Active Directory subsystem manages "system lookup" tasks (i.e., associating users with passwords or permissions) in compliance with the LDAP standard. Provides detailed coverage of Active Directory security, auditing, and integration with existing installations.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction to Active Directory 1
  
• Chapter 2 Management Tools 31
  
• Chapter 3 Domain Name Systems (DNS) 67
  
• Chapter 4 Installing Active Directory 105
  
• Chapter 5 Domains and Domain Controllers 125
  
• Chapter 6 Multiple Domains 151
  
• Chapter 7 Sites 173
  
• Chapter 8 Active Directory Replication 193
  
• Chapter 9 Schema 219
  
• Chapter 10 Permissions, Users, and Groups 243
  
• Chapter 11 Other Directory Objects 271
  
• Chapter 12 Understanding Group Policy 293
  
• Chapter 13 Implementing and Troubleshooting Group Policy 315
  
• Chapter 14 Change and Configuration Management 355
  
• Chapter 15 File and Print Services 381
  
• Chapter 16 Managing Domain Controllers 407
  
• Chapter 17 Troubleshooting Active Directory 433
  
• Chapter 18 Advanced Scripting 451
  
• Chapter 19 Active Directory Design 473
  
• Chapter 20 Migrating to Windows 2000 495
  
• Chapter 21 Downlevel Computers 519
  
• Chapter 22 Directory Interoperability 533
  
• Appendix A Active Directory Classes 547
  
• Appendix B Further Reading 629