How-To

Real, step-by-step solutions for Active Directory 2008 administrators: fast, accurate, proven, and easy to use!

A concise, task-based guide to the most crucial Active Directory 2008 administration tasks: both common and rarely used techniques.
Practical techniques that will help readers lower IT management costs, streamline identity management, strengthen security, and improve compliance.
Authored by an expert who has earned Microsoft's prestigious MVP designation for Directory Services.

When time is of the essence, Active Directory 2008 administrators can turn to this book first, to get reliable, easy-to-implement solutions they can trust -- and use immediately. This book brings together tested, step-by-step procedures for planning, installing, customizing, and managing AD DS in any production environment. Completely up-to-date, it fully reflects the brand-new version of Active Directory introduced in Windows Server 2008, which contains the most significant changes to Active Directory it was first introduced a decade ago. This hands-on, step-by-step how-to guide walks administrators through performing approximately 200 tasks, with clear and accurate steps and diagrams for each one. Active Directory MVP John Policelli walks through preparing for and installing AD; then managing trusts, domain controllers; operations master roles, sites, replication, schema, AD DS data, group policy, backup/recovery, auditing, time services, and more.