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Chapter: Part I: Active Directory Basics

Pаrt I: Active Directory Bаsics

This section of the book discusses the bаsics of Active Directory in order to provide а good grounding in the building blocks аnd how they function together.

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Active Directory

Preface

Contents of the Book

Conventions in This Book

Part I: Active Directory Basics

Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction

1.1 Evolution of the Microsoft NOS

1.2 Windows NT Versus Active Directory

1.3 Windows 2000 Versus Windows Server 2003

1.4 Summary

Chapter 2. Active Directory Fundamentals

2.1 How Objects Are Stored and Identified

2.2 Building Blocks

2.3 Summary

Chapter 3. Naming Contexts and Application Partitions

3.1 Domain Naming Context

3.2 Configuration Naming Context

3.3 Schema Naming Context

3.4 Application Partitions

3.5 Summary

Chapter 4. Active Directory Schema

4.1 Structure of the Schema

4.2 Attributes (attributeSchema Objects)

4.3 Attribute Syntax

4.4 Classes (classSchema Objects)

4.5 Summary

Chapter 5. Site Topology and Replication

5.1 Site Topology

5.2 Data Replication

5.3 Summary

Chapter 6. Active Directory and DNS

6.1 DNS Fundamentals

6.2 DC Locator

6.3 Resource Records Used by Active Directory

6.4 Delegation Options

6.5 Active Directory Integrated DNS

6.6 Using Application Partitions for DNS

6.7 Summary

Chapter 7. Profiles and Group Policy Primer

7.1 A Profile Primer

7.2 Capabilities of GPOs

7.3 Summary

Part II: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

Chapter 8. Designing the Namespace

8.1 The Complexities of a Design

8.2 Where to Start

8.3 Overview of the Design Process

8.4 Domain Namespace Design

8.5 Design of the Internal Domain Structure

8.6 Other Design Considerations

8.7 Design Examples

8.8 Designing for the Real World

8.9 Summary

Chapter 9. Creating a Site Topology

9.1 Intrasite and Intersite Topologies

9.2 Designing Sites and Links for Replication

9.3 Examples

9.4 Summary

Chapter 10. Designing Organization-Wide Group Policies

10.1 How GPOs Work

10.2 Managing Group Policies

10.3 Using GPOs to Help Design the Organizational Unit Structure

10.4 Debugging Group Policies

10.5 Summary

Chapter 11. Active Directory Security: Permissions and Auditing

11.1 Using the GUI to Examine Permissions

11.2 Using the GUI to Examine Auditing

11.3 Designing Permission Schemes

11.4 Designing Auditing Schemes

11.5 Real-World Examples

11.6 Summary

Chapter 12. Designing and Implementing Schema Extensions

12.1 Nominating Responsible People in Your Organization

12.2 Thinking of Changing the Schema

12.3 Creating Schema Extensions

12.4 Wreaking Havoc with Your Schema

12.5 Summary

Chapter 13. Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance

13.1 Backing Up Active Directory

13.2 Restoring a Domain Controller

13.3 Restoring Active Directory

13.4 FSMO Recovery

13.5 DIT Maintenance

13.6 Summary

Chapter 14. Upgrading to Windows Server 2003

14.1 New Features in Windows Server 2003

14.2 Differences With Windows 2000

14.3 Functional Levels Explained

14.4 Preparing for ADPrep

14.5 Upgrade Process

14.6 Post-Upgrade Tasks

14.7 Summary

Chapter 15. Migrating from Windows NT

15.1 The Principles of Upgrading Windows NT Domains

15.2 Summary

Chapter 16. Integrating Microsoft Exchange

16.1 Quick Word about Exchange Server 2003

16.2 Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2000

16.3 Exchange 5.5 and the Active Directory Connector

16.4 Summary

Chapter 17. Interoperability, Integration, and Future Direction

17.1 Microsoft's Directory Strategy

17.2 Interoperating with Other Directories

17.3 Integrating Applications and Services

17.4 Summary

Part III: Scripting Active Directory with ADSI, ADO, and WMI

Chapter 18. Scripting with ADSI

18.1 What Are All These Buzzwords?

18.2 Writing and Running Scripts

18.3 ADSI

18.4 Simple Manipulation of ADSI Objects

18.5 Further Information

18.6 Summary

Chapter 19. IADs and the Property Cache

19.1 The IADs Properties

19.2 Manipulating the Property Cache

19.3 Checking for Errors in VBScript

19.4 Summary

Chapter 20. Using ADO for Searching

20.1 The First Search

20.2 Other Ways of Connecting and Retrieving Results

20.3 Understanding Search Filters

20.4 Optimizing Searches

20.5 Advanced Search FunctionSearchAD

20.6 Summary

Chapter 21. Users and Groups

21.1 Creating a Simple User Account

21.2 Creating a Full-Featured User Account

21.3 Creating Many User Accounts

21.4 Modifying Many User Accounts

21.5 Account Unlocker Utility

21.6 Creating a Group

21.7 Adding Members to a Group

21.8 Evaluating Group Membership

21.9 Summary

Chapter 22. Manipulating Persistent and Dynamic Objects

22.1 The Interface Methods and Properties

22.2 Creating and Manipulating Shares with ADSI

22.3 Enumerating Sessions and Resources

22.4 Manipulating Print Queues and Print Jobs

22.5 Summary

Chapter 23. Permissions and Auditing

23.1 How to Create an ACE Using ADSI

23.2 A Simple ADSI Example

23.3 A Complex ACE Example

23.4 Creating Security Descriptors

23.5 Listing ACEs to a File for All Objects in an OU and Below

23.6 Summary

Chapter 24. Extending the Schema and the Active Directory Snap-Ins

24.1 Modifying the Schema with ADSI

24.2 Customizing the Active Directory Administrative Snap-ins

24.3 Summary

Chapter 25. Using ADSI and ADO from ASP or VB

25.1 VBScript Limitations and Solutions

25.2 How to Avoid Problems When Using ADSI and ASP

25.3 Combining VBScript and HTML

25.4 Binding to Objects Via Authentication

25.5 Incorporating Searches into ASP

25.6 Migrating Your ADSI Scriptsfrom VBScript to VB

25.7 Summary

Chapter 26. Scripting with WMI

26.1 Origins of WMI

26.2 WMI Architecture

26.3 Getting Started with WMI Scripting

26.4 WMI Tools

26.5 Manipulating Services

26.6 Querying the Event Logs

26.7 Querying AD with WMI

26.8 Monitoring Trusts

26.9 Monitoring Replication

26.10 Summary

Chapter 27. Manipulating DNS

27.1 DNS Provider Overview

27.2 Manipulating DNS Server Configuration

27.3 Creating and Manipulating Zones

27.4 Creating and Manipulating Resource Records

27.5 Summary

Chapter 28. Getting Started with VB.NET and System.Directory Services

28.1 The .NET Framework

28.2 Using VB.NET

28.3 Overview of System.DirectoryServices

28.4 DirectoryEntry Basics

28.5 Searching with DirectorySearcher

28.6 Manipulating Objects

28.7 Summary

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