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Active Directory Forestry, Investigating and Managing Objects and Attributes for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003

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This is great book containing a lot of very useful detail information about Active Directory, which is otherwise rather hard to find. The examples are real-world type of examples - the authors don't simply repeat other tech-information, but put it into context allowing the reader to really use the features of AD for their environment. I found, that the book is also very up to date containing a lot of good information about the changes of AD and the respective tools in Windows Server 2003. This is not a beginners book - I'd suggest it for the experienced, who wants to dig down even deeper.

I thought the price of $... was a little steep, but it turns out to be the best insurance policy I ever purchased. Last week I was in hot water with my boss when we couldn't figure out what was going on with the visibility/searchability of some key objects in the directory. I turned to this book and found an answer in about 5 minutes (after spending almost 4 hours battling with microsoft premier support to no avail...)

I would reccomend this highly to anyone who works closely with AD - development, architecture, or operations. It is the only book of its kind, and believe me... when you really NEED to know, you will be glad you have it.

talk about a total technical deep dive. admittedly, i can only do about 5 pages before i start to doze off... but that is my brain not being able to keep up.