How to Cheat at Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure
By
Melissa Craft, Michael Cross, Hal Kurz, Brian Barber
HIGHLIGHT
The next book in our best selling and critically acclaimed How to Cheat series. This is the perfect book for users who have already purchased How to Cheat at Managing Windows 2003 Small Business Server.
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Date: Jan 2006
Pages: 500 (est.)
User level: Intermediate/Advanced
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DESCRIPTION
The book will start off by teaching readers to create the conceptual design of their Active Directory infrastructure by gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements. Next, readers will create the logical design for an Active Directory infrastructure. Here the book starts to drill deeper and focus on aspects such as group policy design. Finally, readers will learn to create the physical design for an active directory and network Infrastructure including DNS server placement; DC and GC placements and Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role placement.
KEY SELLING POINTS
- Active Directory is the market leader in the directory services space, and 57% of all Microsoft corporate customers have deployed AD.
- Follows Syngress’s proven “How To Cheat” methodology.
- Companion Web site offers dozens of templates, “Cheat Sheets”, and checklists for readers.
MARKET INFORMATION
According to Forrester research, Active Directory is the market leader in the directory services market, and 57% of all Microsoft corporate customers have deployed Active Directory while 41% plan to deploy it within the next 12 months.
How to Cheat at Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure follows Syngress’s proven “How to Cheat” methodology, which is specifically designed to provide overworked and stressed out System Administrators and “part-time” Sys Admins an easy-to read and implement guide to the most concise information needed to complete a task.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melissa Craft (CCNA, MCNE, MCSE, Network+, CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-GW, CNE-5, CCA) is the Vice President of Dane Holdings, Inc., a financial services corporation in the Phoenix, Arizona area, where she manages the Web development, LAN, and WAN for the company.
Michael Cross (MCSE, MCP+I, CNA, Network+) is an Internet specialist / computer forensic analyst with the Niagara Regional Police Service.
Hal Kurz (MCSE, CCDP, CCNP, CCDA, CCNA) is CIO of Innovative Technology Consultants and Company, Inc. (www.itccinc.com), a computer consulting and training company located in Miami, FL.
Brian Barber (MCSE (Win2000), MCSA (Win2000), MCSE (WinNT 4.0), MCP+I, MCNE, CNE-5, CNE-4, CNA-3, CNA-GW) is an IT Infrastructure Architect with Sierra Systems Consultants Inc. in Ottawa, Canada.
TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
Active Directory is a directory service by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active Directory allows administrators to assign enterprise wide policies, deploy programs to many computers, and apply critical updates to an entire organization. An Active Directory stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few hundred objects, to a large installation with millions of objects. |
