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Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches Richard Siddaway MEAP Began: February 2013 Softbound print: Fall 2013 | 300 pages ISBN: 9781617291197 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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PART 1:MANAGING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATA
1 Before you begin - FREE 2 User account creation - AVAILABLE 3 User account management - AVAILABLE 4 Group management - AVAILABLE 5 Troubleshooting users and groups - AVAILABLE 6 Managing computer accounts - AVAILABLE 7 Managing organizational units - AVAILABLE PART 2:MANAGING GROUP POLICY 8 Creating group policies - AVAILABLE 9 Group policy management 10 Fine-grained password policies PART 3:MANAGING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE 11 Domain controllers 12 Protecting Active Directory 13 Security and delegation 14 DNS 15 Sites and subnets 16 Replication 17 Trusts PART 4:MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING 18 Troubleshooting 19 Maintaining and monitoring 20 Final exam and future work PART 5: REFERENCE 21 Installing Active Directory 22 Using server core 23 Migrations, upgrades and re-organizations 24 Your first toolset 25 Searching Active Directory 26 Common AD filters and PowerShell cmdlets |
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DESCRIPTION
Active Directory is the heart of a Windows network, providing a centralized location for administration, security, and other core management functions. For example, Active Directory authenticates all users in a Windows network and enforces policies for managing your desktop estate. If you're new to Active Directory administration—or if you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into that role—you need to get a handle on Active Directory quickly. This is the book for you.
Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a practical, hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. It skips the theory and concentrates on the day to day administration tasks you need to know to keep your network running smoothly. Just set aside an hour a day for a month—lunchtime would be perfect—and you'll be comfortable and productive with Active Directory before you know it.
This book makes no assumptions about your background and starts by introducing Active Directory and walking you through its basic features. You'll learn how to administer AD both from the GUI tools built into Windows and by using PowerShell and the AD cmdlets. Along the way, you'll touch on best practices for managing user access, setting good group policies, automating backup processes, and more. The examples in the book use Windows Server 2012 version of Active Directory and point out any important differences from earlier versions.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Master day-to-day administrative tasks
- Learn GUI and command line techniques
- Assumes no prior knowledge
- Practical and task orientated
- Tested by new administrators
- Lots of well-illustrated, clearly-explained examples
A set of handy appendices provide a guide to installing Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 and earlier versions, using Server Core, and an overview of Active Directory migrations and reorganizations. This book assumes no prior experience with Active Directory.
About the Authors
Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He's the author of PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell and WMI, and coauthor of PowerShell in Depth.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedsiddaway3 and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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