Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches

Description

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. 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. It skips the theory and concentrates on the day-to-day administration tasks you need to know to keep your network running smoothly. 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 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. Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches Jacket Copyright Brief Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface About This Book About the Author Acknowledgments Part 1. Managing Active Directory Data Chapter 1. Before you begin Chapter 2. Creating user accounts Chapter 3. Managing user accounts Chapter 4. Managing groups Chapter 5. Troubleshooting users and groups Chapter 6. Managing computer accounts Chapter 7. Managing organizational units Part 2. Managing Group Policy Chapter 8. Creating Group Policies Chapter 9. Managing Group Policies Chapter 10. Fine-grained password policies Part 3. Managing the Active Directory service Chapter 11. Creating domain controllers Chapter 12. Managing domain controllers Chapter 13. Protecting AD data Chapter 14. Security: Default groups and delegation Chapter 15. Managing DNS Chapter 16. Managing sites and subnets Chapter 17. AD replication Chapter 18. Managing AD trusts Part 4. Maintenance and Troubleshooting Chapter 19. Troubleshooting your AD Chapter 20. Maintaining and monitoring Active Directory Chapter 21. Future work and final exam Chapter 22. Into the cloud Appendix A. Searching Active Directory Appendix B. Migrations and upgrades Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Listings