Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches

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Автор: Richard Siddaway

Название: Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches

Издательство: Manning Publications; 1 edition

Год: 2014

Формат: PDF

Размер: 13.15 MB

Язык: Английский

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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.

About the Book

At the heart of your Windows network is Active Directory, the control center for administration, security, and other core management functions. If you're new to Active Directory administration—or if you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into that role—you'll need to get up to speed fast.

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. Without assuming previous administration experience, the book starts by walking you through the most important day-to-day system management tasks. You'll learn how to administer AD both from the GUI tools built into Windows and by using PowerShell at the command line. Along the way, you'll touch on best practices for managing user access, setting group policies, automating backups, and more.

This book assumes no prior experience with Active Directory or Windows administration. Examples are based in Windows Server 2012

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

ADM tasks you'll need every day

GUI and command line techniques

Content tested by new administrators

Well-illustrated, clearly explained examples

About the Author

Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He's the author of PowerShell in Practice andPowerShell and WMI, and coauthor of PowerShell in Depth.

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATA

Before you begin

Creating user accounts

Managing user accounts

Managing groups

Troubleshooting users and groups

Managing computer accounts

Managing organizational units

PART 2 MANAGING GROUP POLICY

Creating Group Policies

Managing Group Policies

Fine-grained password policies

PART 3 MANAGING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE

Creating domain controllers

Managing domain controllers

Protecting AD data

Security: Default groups and delegation

Managing DNS

Managing sites and subnets

AD replication

Managing AD trusts

PART 4 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

Troubleshooting your AD

Maintaining and monitoring Active Directory

Future work and final exam

Into the cloud