Summary

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

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