Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server

Description

Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server covers Active Directory, what Microsoft calls the "next generation of Directory Services." Active Directory provides a single point of administration for Windows 2000 users and administrators. In NT 4, Directory Services were tools for organizing and managing certain objects in a computing system. Those objects are comprised of printers, documents, databases, email addresses, users and other resources. Active Directory was created to handle the more complex objects of a networked environment. In addition to these objects, Active Directory will manage naming, querying, administrative, registration, and resolution needs. * Includes coverage of vendor-specific implementations of Active Directory (such as Cisco and Oracle)* Covers an integral part of the operating system and drills down to cover the directory services of Windows 2000* Topics covered include:* Windows 2000 Support for open standards, DNS, and LDAP* Support for standard name formats* The Active Directory API* Drag-and-drop administration* Extensible schema* The global catalog * Backward compatibility with previous versions of NT 4* Interoperability with NetWare