Windows 2000 User Management

Lori Sanders has recently given up the road warrior's life and has joined the staff of HRchitect as a project manager for one of their Fortune 500 clients in Memphis, Tennessee. Previously, Lori owned iSolve Consulting Group, a company specializing in NT networking, I-net based system design, and technology consulting. Lori is also a technical editor and instructor for Learning Tree International, focusing on the Windows 2000, NT4, and client/server arenas. Lori has been working with Windows 2000 since the first beta release and has implemented the OS in several lab sites for her clients. Her 17-year background in the Information Technology field includes project management, information systems engineering, network administration, and technical support. She also has been a programmer, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about that. Lori is based in Tennessee where she lives most happily with her wonderful husband, Wade, their daughters, beautiful grandchildren, six cats, and two dogs. You can contact Lori at lsanders@isolveconsulting.com.

I. WINDOWS 2000 FUNDAMENTALS.

1. Inside Windows 2000 Overview.


What's New for User and Desktop Management in Windows 2000.



Active Directory Overview.



Planning the Active Directory.

2. Domains.


Domain Basics.



Drawback of NT 3.x/4.0 Domains.



Trust Relationships.



Domain Models in NT 3.51 and NT.



Migrating Your Domain Model to Windows 2000.



Comparing Public and Private Namespaces.



A Few Final Thoughts.

3. Authentication and Resource Protection in Windows 2000.


Security Perimeters.



Security Activities.



Secure Authentication Services in Windows 2000.



Security Access Tokens.



Discretionary Access Control Lists. (DACLs).



Auditing Security Access Control Lists.



A Few Last Words.

4. Understanding Organizational Units: The Building Blocks of the Active Directory.


Creating and OU Hierarchy that Works for You.



Reasons to Create Ous.



DACLs an SACLs on Ous.



Directory Object Inheritance Model.



Pizza Place Case Study.

II. MANAGING USERS AND GROUPS.

5. Managing User Accounts.


Predefined User Accounts.



Creating Users.



Upgrading from an Earlier Version of NT. Migrating to Active Directory from NetWare.



Copying User Accounts.



Deleting User Accounts.



In Summary.

6. Group Management.


Group Categories.



Global Groups.



Replication Considerations in Group Design.



Group Memberships as Viewed from Downlevel Systems.



Creating Groups.

III. ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT.

7. User Profiles.


Defining Profile.



Applying Profiles.



Profiles and Slow Network Connection



Mandatory Profiles.



Disadvantages of Profiles.

8. Employing Group Policies.


Group Policy and Total Cost of Ownership.



Applying Group Policies to the Directory Tree.



The Group Policy Editor.



Applying Group Policies.

9. IntelliMirror Features.


Remote Operating System Installation.



IntelliMirror.



Offline Folders and the Synchronization Manger.



Synchronizing Files.



IntelliMirror Scenarios.



Summing Up.

Appendix A - Directory Management with Windows Script Host.


Building the Structure.



Building the Printers and Shares.



Building the Users.



Modifying the Users.



Adding Users to Groups.



Enhancing the Scripts.



Summary.

Appendix B - Custom .ADM Template File Example.
Glossary.
Index.