Mastering Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 (eBook)

John A. Price is the Lead Architect for a Microsoft Gold consulting firm in the Midwest. He has 11 years of experience with several Microsoft products, specializing in Active Directory, Exchange Server, and the System Center line of products. Brad Price is an MCT with 16 years of experience in the IT field, specializing in Active Directory, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server, and Operation Manager. He is the author of several books on Active Directory. Scott Fenstermacher is an MCSE/MCDBA/MCSD, also with 16 years of experience in IT, in areas such as programming and scripting, database design and programming, and Windows and Linux network management.

Introduction xxv

Part 1 * Active Directory Design 1

Chapter 1 * Active Directory Fundamentals 3

Chapter 2 * Domain Name System Design 17

Chapter 3 * Active Directory Domain Services Forest and
Domain Design 43

Chapter 4 * Organizing the Physical and Logical Aspects of
AD DS 79

Chapter 5 * Flexible Single Master Operations Design
119

Part 2 * Active Directory Object Management 127

Chapter 6 * Managing Accounts: User, Group, and Computer
129

Chapter 7 * Maintaining Organizational Units 179

Chapter 8 * Managing Group Policy 207

Chapter 9 * Managing Active Directory Security 245

Part 3 * Active Directory Service Management
265

Chapter 10 * Managing Access with Active Directory
Services 267

Chapter 11 * Managing Active Directory Rights Management
Services 297

Chapter 12 * Managing Active Directory Certificate
Services 329

Chapter 13 * Managing the Flexible Single Master
Operations Roles 365

Chapter 14 * Maintaining the Active Directory Database
387

Part 4 * Active Directory Best Practices and
Troubleshooting 409

Chapter 15 * Microsoft's Troubleshooting Methodology
for Active Directory 411

Chapter 16 * Troubleshooting Problems Related to Network
Infrastructure 425

Chapter 17 * Troubleshooting Problems Related to the
Active Directory Database 451

Part 5 * Streamlining Management with Scripts
483

Chapter 18 * ADSI Primer 485

Chapter 19 * Active Directory Scripts 541

Chapter 20 * Monitoring Active Directory 615

Chapter 21 * Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
653

Appendix A * The Bottom Line 683

Index 709