Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services

Learn to how to programmatically manage and monitor Active Directory in a large-scale environment

Provides expert advice from two authors who lead Cisco's Active Directory deployment and management initiative. Focuses on post-deployment issues surrounding Active Directory. Shares insight from enterprise-level deployers through real-world case studies. Active Directory, a key element of Windows 2000, is a centralized system that automates management of user data and resources and is intended to be a consolidation point for centrally managing and reducing the number of directories that companies have. Due to its complexity, managing Active Directory requires careful maintenance and monitoring. In Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services, the authors draw from their own experiences with Active Directory programming interfaces and management concepts to provide readers with an authoritative reference that will enable them to manage Active Directory services more efficiently.

Contents

• I. ACTIVE DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT BASICS.
• • 1. Active Directory Overview.
  • 2. Active Directory Management.
• II. ACTIVE DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT INTERFACES.
• • 3. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
  • 4. Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI).
  • 5. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
• III. ACTIVE DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS.
• • 6. Windows NT Migration.
  • 7. Directory Operations.
  • 8. Domain Name System (DNS).
  • 9. Site Topology and Replication
  • 10. Schema.
  • 11. Accounts (Users, Groups, Computers, and Printers).
  • 12. Security.
  • 13. Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
• IV. APPENDIXES.
• • Appendix A. Active Directory References.
  • Appendix B. Indexed, GC, and ANR Attributes.
  • Appendix C. LDAP Controls.
  • Appendix D. Group Policy Settings.