What's in This Book?
This book consists of 18 chapters. Here is a brief overview of each
chapter:
Chapter 1, sets the stage for the book by covering
where you can find the tools used in the book, VBScript and Perl
issues to consider, and where to find additional information. Chapter 2, covers how to create and remove forests
and domains, update the domain mode or functional levels, create
different types of trusts, and other administrative trust tasks. Chapter 3, covers promoting and demoting domain
controllers, finding domain controllers, enabling the global catalog,
and finding and managing Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO)
roles. Chapter 4, covers the basics of searching Active
Directory; creating, modifying, and deleting objects; using LDAP
controls; and importing and exporting data using LDAP Data
Interchange Format (LDIF) and comma-separated variable (CSV) files. Chapter 5, covers creating, moving, and deleting
Organizational Units, and managing the objects contained within them. Chapter 6, covers all aspects of managing user
objects, including creating, renaming, moving, resetting passwords,
unlocking, modifying the profile attributes, and locating users that
have certain criteria (e.g., password is about to expire). Chapter 7, covers how to create groups, modify
group scope, and type and manage membership. Chapter 8, covers creating computers, joining
computers to a domain, resetting computers, and locating computers
that match certain criteria (e.g., have been inactive for a number of
weeks). Chapter 9, covers how to create, modify, link,
copy, import, back up, restore, and delete GPOs using the Group
Policy Management Console and scripting interface. Chapter 10, covers basic schema administration
tasks, such as generating object identifiers (OIDs) and
schemaIDGUIDs, how to use LDIF to extend the schema, and how to
locate attributes or classes that match certain criteria (e.g., all
attributes that are indexed). Chapter 11, covers how to manage sites, subnets,
site links, and connection objects. Chapter 12, covers how to trigger and disable the
Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC), how to query metadata, force
replication, and determine what changes have yet to replicate between
domain controllers. Chapter 13, covers creating zones and resource
records, modifying DNS server configuration, querying DNS, and
customizing the resource records a domain controller dynamically
registers. Chapter 14, covers how to delegate control, view
and modify permissions, view effective permissions, and manage
Kerberos tickets. Chapter 15, covers how to enable auditing,
diagnostics, DNS, NetLogon, Kerberos and GPO logging, obtain LDAP
query statistics, and manage quotas. Chapter 16, covers how to back up Active Directory,
perform authoritative and nonauthoritative restores, check DIT file
integrity, perform online and offline defrags, and search for deleted
objects. Chapter 17, covers creating and managing
application partitions. Chapter 18, covers how to integrate Active
Directory with various applications, services, and programming
languages.
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