| Overview
If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help
is here with Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition, a
unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for Active
Directory and updated for Window Server 2003 SP1 and R2 versions.
The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both
common and uncommon problems that you're likely to encounter with
Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with
the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), ADAM,
multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy,
the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. Author Robbie
Allen, a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, MVP for Directory
Services, and co-author of Active Directory, Third Edition
and Laura E. Hunter, MVP for Windows Server-Networking and author
of several books, have based this collection of troubleshooting
recipes on their own experience, along with input from Windows
administrators. Each recipe includes a discussion explaining how
and why the solution works, so you can adapt the problem-solving
techniques to similar situations. This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems
commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating
Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server
2003. The recipes include: creating domains and trusts renaming a domain controller finding users whose passwords are about to expire applying a security filter to group policy objects checking for potential replication problems restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries viewing DNS server performance statistics
This Cookbook is a perfect companion to Active Directory,
Third Edition, the tutorial that experts hail as the best source
for understanding Microsoft's directory service. While Active
Directory provides the big picture, Active Directory
Cookbook gives you quick solutions you need to cope with
day-to-day dilemmas. Together, these books supply the knowledge and
tools so you can get the most out of Active Directory to manage
users, groups, computers, domains, organizational units, and
security policies on your network.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionIf you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for Active Directory and updated for Window Server 2003 SP1 and R2 versions. The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you're likely to encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), ADAM, multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. Author Robbie Allen, a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, MVP for Directory Services, and co-author of Active Directory, Third Edition and Laura E. Hunter, MVP for Windows Server-Networking and author of several books, have based this collection of troubleshooting recipes on their own experience, along with input from Windows administrators. Each recipe includes a discussion explaining how and why the solution works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The recipes include: - creating domains and trusts
- renaming a domain controller
- finding users whose passwords are about to expire
- applying a security filter to group policy objects
- checking for potential replication problems
- restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries
- viewing DNS server performance statistics
This Cookbook is a perfect companion to Active Directory, Third Edition, the tutorial that experts hail as the best source for understanding Microsoft's directory service. While Active Directory provides the big picture, Active Directory Cookbook gives you quick solutions you need to cope with day-to-day dilemmas. Together, these books supply the knowledge and tools so you can get the most out of Active Directory to manage users, groups, computers, domains, organizational units, and security policies on your network. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 75 reviews. In regular use on my office bookshelf, 2008-04-25 Reviewer rating: Very handy cookbook reference for my office bookshelf. I've used it a number of times, and it's more than paid for itself in expediting regularly-scheduled inquiries of our AD structure here at GEICO HQ. | Must Have Reference book for Admins and Developers!, 2008-03-24 Reviewer rating: Excellent reference if you work with AD on a regular basis either as an admin or a developer. Each "how to" offers methods for manually performing a specific task as well as (where possible) how to automate the task using code. Should be on every Windows admin/developer's desk. | Great reference, could use a little work on helping people implement in more useful ways though., 2007-11-07 Reviewer rating: Overall, this is a great book for reference.
There are a number of areas where I think the book falls short - all of the scripts are very hard coded scripts that don't tell you how to do some functions that would make their scripts actually useful (like "pull the list of users with attributes from a tab-delimited file and create them" or something similar, this would make mass creation of users actually useful, instead of "create user1, user2, user3, etc..."). I think that the writers expect you to be a VB expert (or at least close to it) if you're going to actually make the vb scripts useful.
Most of the scripts are "How to use a script to do the same functions that you can already do in AD with ADUC or another MMC", but I think that the most important thing for me about the book is what it inspires me to think of doing. Things that MS doesn't necessarily expect you to do. I'm still not seeing a way to add sidHistory to an object (MS does it with another applet - there is a way...), but there are so many things in the book that just have me thinking about how you can implement changes to an environment that MS says you can't do. What they really mean is "You can't do that with the GUI tools that we provide you". | Great Book!!, 2007-07-26 Reviewer rating: I am so glad that this book was recommended to me by a guy I took a class on scripting from. I use this book everyday (almost). I even took it on vacation with me for light reading. | Excellent Book! , 2007-03-09 Reviewer rating: Hard to say in words to adequately describe how much I like this book. I highly recommend to anyone who works with AD. |
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