Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory Book

PrefaceActive Directory Basics

• Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction
• Chapter 2: Active Directory Fundamentals
• Chapter 3: Naming Contexts and Application Partitions
• Chapter 4: Active Directory Schema
• Chapter 5: Site Topology and Replication
• Chapter 6: Active Directory and DNS
• Chapter 7: Read-Only Domain Controllers
• Chapter 8: Group Policy Primer
• Chapter 9: Fine-Grained Password Policies

• Chapter 10: Designing the Namespace
• Chapter 11: Creating a Site Topology
• Chapter 12: Designing Organization-Wide Group Policies
• Chapter 13: Active Directory Security: Permissions and Auditing
• Chapter 14: Designing and Implementing Schema Extensions
• Chapter 15: Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance
• Chapter 16: Upgrading to Windows Server 2003
• Chapter 17: Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 R2
• Chapter 18: Upgrading to Windows Server 2008
• Chapter 19: Integrating Microsoft Exchange
• Chapter 20: Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (a.k.a. ADAM)

• Chapter 21: Scripting with ADSI
• Chapter 22: IADs and the Property Cache
• Chapter 23: Using ADO for Searching
• Chapter 24: Users and Groups
• Chapter 25: Permissions and Auditing
• Chapter 26: Extending the Schema and the Active Directory Snap-ins
• Chapter 27: Scripting with WMI
• Chapter 28: Scripting DNS
• Chapter 29: Programming the Directory with the .NET Framework
• Chapter 30: PowerShell Basics
• Chapter 31: Scripting Active Directory with PowerShell
• Chapter 32: Scripting Basic Exchange 2003 Tasks
• Chapter 33: Scripting Basic Exchange 2007 Tasks

Brian Desmond spends his days focused on Active Directory for some of the world's largest companies. A Microsoft MVP since 2004, Brian brings extensive knowledge of how Active Directory works and how to successfully run Active Directory deployments large and small.

Joe Richards is a consultant/admin/tool writer and Microsoft MVP for Windows Server Directory Services. Joe updated the second edition of Active Directory Cookbook for O'Reilly.

Robbie Allen is an author, entrepreneur, web industry veteran, and new father. His day job has been in IT for the last 12 years. He is the coauthor of Active Directory, 2nd Edition and the author of the Active Directory Cookbook.

Alistair G. Lowe-Norris is an Architectural Enterprise Strategy Consultant for Microsoft UK. During the writing of the first version of this book he worked for Leicester University as the project manager and technical lead of the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows 2000. During his time there, Leicester was part of Microsoft's U.K. and U.S. Rapid Deployment Programs for Windows 2000, and was responsible for rolling out what turned out to be one of the world's largest deployments of Windows 2000 preceding release of the final product. Since 1998 he has been the technical editor and a monthly columnist for the Windows Scripting Solutions magazine and a technical editor and author for Windows & .Net Magazine (previously Windows NT Magazine and Windows 2000 Magazine). In addition he is an author and editor for various other publications and online sites worldwide. He holds various Microsoft and other accreditations and has been using Windows 2000 and its descendents daily since October 1997. He lives in Leicester, UK.