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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Windows 2000 Active Directory is a notably authoritative and engaging guide to Microsoft's Active Directory (AD). This book can serve as a trustworthy guide for any administrator or developer planning to make the move to the new Windows and this powerful directory standard. Articulate and technically astute, the author adopts the role of a trusted advisor on the best ways to handle the move from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, with an expert's view of designing the layout of your company's Active Directory schema. In realistic terms, he shows you how AD can coexist with UNIX directories. The book not only provides a collection of screenshots (though there are hands-on tutorials for specific tasks), but also a nicely in-depth tour of what Internet directories are and what advantages Active Directory offers. The author's case studies on sample domains and organisation units (OUs) for sample companies, including a model global corporation, will help any network administrator cope with the design of even the most complex directories. His hints for limiting "domains" and favouring the more flexible "organisational units" (OUs) will also help administrators think in Windows 2000 terms. Later sections of the book delve into Active Directory Services Interface (ASDI) scripting using Windows Script Host (WSH), Visual Basic, and even ASPs for browser-based administration. Assuming very little programming background, the author provides tips and sample scripts for a variety of common administrative tasks, such as adding new users, changing passwords and the like. This focus on the practical side of administration rounds out an extremely useful guide to Windows 2000. This technically savvy book can definitely simplify the life of any administrator, manager, or developer upgrading to the latest Windows and who needs to understand and use AD effectively. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com Average Rating:
 Rating:  - O'Reilly does it again.As a departmental administrator in a global multinational system with many servers, I found this book useful to get you off the ground and keep going. The concept of Windows 2000 Active directory is not intuitive and requires the use of this book or similar material to understand and maintain the system properly. IBM can supply sufficient training and training material; there comes a time when you need to see the information from a different perspective. This different perspective is given in this ... Read More Rating:  - Active Directory, 2nd EditionI was recommended this book and can only guess at what the person who recommended it was thinking. Make no mistake, this book is poor. Some parts are misleading, there are a number of omissions (for example, there's a long discussion of changing domain/forest modes, but no discussion of what the modes are and what each provides) and some parts are just plain incorrect. Now, how do I get my money back? Rating: - Excellent coverage of all aspects of Active DirectoryConsidering it's not the largest IT book on my shelf, "Active Directory" 2nd Edition certainly packs a lot in. It covers the essentials clearly and concisely, from the basic theory of what AD is to more practical details such as an excellent detailed description of all the settings available in a group policy object. It then moves on to designing Active Directory, including a few invaluable practical examples and more up-to-date info such as how to upgrade to 2003 Server and where ... Read More Rating: - Excellent place to start with Active DirectoryThis book is an excellent place to start if you know little or nothing about MS Active Directory. Another review says the scripting section is quite large, which is true. I found most of chapters invaluable, as it covers much of the stuff Microsoft assumes you already know, such as how to design your DNS and AD structure, how to Migrate/Integrate from/with Windows NT. Also touches on Exchange2000. This is not really a reference book, more a chapter-by-chapter read. This is not a critisism ... Read More Rating:  - More for people intrested in Scritping.The book in split into 3 Sections, 1 & 2 are about "Basics" and "Designing" and are about 330 pages between them. The last section on "Scripting" is 250 pages, so the main focus of this book is on that. One of the best ways to find a good book, is to look at the index (I did this after I bought this book) under "I". This section has 2 pages of references to "IADs". Compare that to "DDNS", "DNS" and "LDAP". Tools to work with Windows 2000 are really important e.g. "RepAdmin", "ReplMon" "DSAStat", ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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