Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers immediate answers for the day-to-day administration of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008. Zero in on core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information you need to solve problems and get the job done—whether at your desk or in the field!
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Install forests, domain trees, and child domains
Add and remove writable domain controllers and deploy read-only controllers
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot global catalog servers
Maintain directory and data integrity using operations masters
Evaluate sites, subnets, and replication before expanding a network
Establish a trust relationship between domains and between forests
Maintain and recover Active Directory Domain Services
Employ essential command-line utilities
Implementing Active Directory
Chapter 1 Overview of Active Directory
Understanding Directory Services
Introducing Active Directory
Active Directory Objects
Managing Active Directory
Chapter 2 Installing New Forests, Domain Trees, and Child Domains
Preparing for Active Directory Installation
Creating Forests, Domain Trees, and Child Domains
Chapter 3 Deploying Writable Domain Controllers
Preparing to Deploy or Decommission Domain Controllers
Adding Writable Domain Controllers
Decommissioning Domain Controllers
Forcing the Removal of Domain Controllers
Chapter 4 Deploying Read-Only Domain Controllers
Preparing to Deploy Read-Only Domain Controllers
Adding RODCs to Domains
Using Staged Installations
Decommissioning RODCs
Setting Password Replication Policy
Managing Active Directory Infrastructure
Chapter 5 Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Global Catalog Servers
Working with Global Catalog Servers
Deploying Global Catalog Servers
Managing and Maintaining Universal Group Membership Caching
Managing and Maintaining Replication Attributes
Managing and Maintaining Name Suffixes
Chapter 6 Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Operations Masters
Operations Master Essentials
Working with Operations Masters
Maintaining Operations Masters
Chapter 7 Managing Active Directory Sites, Subnets, and Replication
Implementing Sites and Subnets
Replication Essentials
Intrasite Versus Intersite Replication
Developing Your Site Design
Configuring Sites and Subnets
Configuring Site Links and Intersite Replication
Monitoring, Verifying, and Troubleshooting Replication
Maintaining and Recovering Active Directory
Chapter 8 Managing Trusts and Authentication
Active Directory Authentication and Trusts
Working with Domain and Forest Trusts
Configuring Selective Authentication
Chapter 9 Maintaining and Recovering Active Directory
Protecting Objects from Accidental Deletion
Starting and Stopping Active Directory Domain Services
Setting the Functional Level of Domains and Forests
Configuring Deleted Item Retention
Configuring the Windows Time Service
Backing Up and Recovering Active Directory
Maintaining the Directory Database
Appendix A Active Directory Utilities Reference
DCDIAG
DCGPOFIX
DISKPART
DSADD COMPUTER
DSADD GROUP
DSADD USER
DSGET COMPUTER
DSGET GROUP
DSGET SERVER
DSGET USER
DSMGMT
DSMOD COMPUTER
DSMOD GROUP
DSMOD SERVER
DSMOD USER
DSMOVE
DSQUERY COMPUTER
DSQUERY CONTACT
DSQUERY GROUP
DSQUERY PARTITION
DSQUERY QUOTA
DSQUERY SERVER
DSQUERY SITE
DSQUERY USER
DSQUERY *
DSRM
ESENTUTL
GET-EVENTLOG
GET-PROCESS
GET-SERVICE
GPUPDATE
IPCONFIG
NET ACCOUNTS
NET COMPUTER
NET CONFIG SERVER
NET CONFIG WORKSTATION
NET CONTINUE
NET FILE
NET GROUP
NET LOCALGROUP
NET PAUSE
NET PRINT
NET SESSION
NET SHARE
NET START
NET STATISTICS
NET STOP
NET TIME
NET USE
NET USER
NET VIEW
NETDOM ADD
NETDOM COMPUTERNAME
NETDOM JOIN
NETDOM MOVE
NETDOM MOVENT4BDC
NETDOM QUERY
NETDOM REMOVE
NETDOM RENAMECOMPUTER
NETDOM RESETPWD
NETDOM RESET
NETDOM TRUST
NETDOM VERIFY
NETSH
NSLOOKUP
PATH PING
PING
ROUTE
SC CONFIG
SC CONTINUE
SC FAILURE
SC PAUSE
SC QC
SC QFAILURE
SC QUERY
SC START
SC STOP
SCHTASKS /CHANGE
SCHTASKS /CREATE
SCHTASKS /DELETE
SCHTASKS /END
SCHTASKS /QUERY
SCHTASKS /RUN
SERVERMANAGERCMD
SET
SET-SERVICE
SHUTDOWN
STOP-PROCESS
STOP-SERVICE
SYSTEMINFO
TASKKILL
TASKLIST
TRACERPT
TRACERT
WBADMIN
Appendix About the Author
Title:
Active Directory® Administrator's Pocket Consultant
William R. Stanek is a Microsoft MVP with 20+ years of experience in systems management and advanced programming. He is an award-winning author who’s written more than 100 books, including Windows 7 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant and Windows Server 2008 Inside Out. He is the series editor for the Pocket Consultant line of books.
