Active Directory 4e: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory - Softcover

Desmond, Brian; Richards, Joe; Allen, Robbie; Lowe–norris, Alistair G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059652059X ISBN 13: 9780596520595

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

To help you take full advantage of Active Directory, this fourth edition of this bestselling book gives you a thorough grounding in Microsoft's network directory service. With Active Directory, you'll learn how to design, manage, and maintain an AD infrastructure, whether it's for a small business network or a multinational enterprise with thousands of resources, services, and users.

This detailed and highly accurate volume covers Active Directory from its origins in Windows 2000 through Windows Server 2008. But unlike typical dry references, Active Directory presents concepts in an easy-to-understand, narrative style. With this book, you will:

• Get a complete review of all the new Windows 2008 features
• Learn how Active Directory works with Exchange and PowerShell
• Take advantage of the updated scripting and programming chapters to automate AD tasks
• Learn how to be more efficient with command-line tools
• Grasp concepts easily with the help of numerous screenshots and diagrams

Ideal for administrators, IT professionals, project managers, and programmers alike, Active Directory is not only for people getting started with AD, it's also for experienced users who need to stay up-to-date with the latest AD features in Windows Server 2008. It is no wonder this guide is the bestselling AD resource available.

About this title

About the Author

Brian Desmond spends his entire day focusing on Active Directory for some of the largest companies in the US and globally. He understands how to run Active Directory successfully better than most folks and has thorough knowledge of how it works. Brian is a Microsoft MVP and has been exposed to the Windows 2008 Active Directory changes for over a year now and the product hasn't even hit the shelves yet!Brian works with a diverse range of Active Directory specialists who vary in their levels of qualification for the jobs they have so he is quite familiar with some of the common questions, pitfalls, etc. He can apply this to catering to people of all different skill levels in this vertical.Joe Richards is a consultant/admin/tool writer and Microsoft MVP for Windows Server Directory Services. Joe updated the second edition of Active Directory Cookbook for O'Reilly.Robbie Allen is the coauthor of Active Directory, 2nd Edition and the author of the Active Directory Cookbook. Visit Robbie's web site at www.robbieallen.com.Alistair G. Lowe-Norris is an enterprise program manager for Microsoft U.K., although during the writing of this book he worked for Leicester University as the project manager and technical lead of the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows 2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059652059X
• ISBN 13: 9780596520595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 858