For managing and navigating networks, directories are absolutely vital and infamously problematic. A dearth of practical standards and virtually no interoperability among most vendors' directory structures creates big headaches for system support people. But Microsoft Windows NT promises to end the pain, thanks to the new Microsoft Windows NT Directory Services (NTDS). "Understanding Active Directory Services" takes readers on a technical grand tour of this new approach. This book is for technically savvy readers, technical managers, network architects, network planners, network administrators, application developers, analysts, and designers.
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Among the features included in the upcoming Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory is perhaps the most exciting. It has the potential to make distributed data structures far easier to implement under Windows, and it takes advantage of some neat technologies to manage versioning and synchronization. Understanding Active Directory Services explains what Active Directory is, what it can do, how it works, and what it means to software developers and systems administrators.
In general, this book is a naming of parts. The author goes to some trouble to explain all the new Active Directory terminology (domain forest, discretionary access control list, and update sequence number, to cite a few). He also provides insight into the Active Directory architecture, explaining which parts talk to which others, when, and how. Very good conceptual diagrams help with this chore. Though it's light on detailed procedures and screen shots, this book does provide as much procedural information as can be expected about a product that's still in beta. You'll be able to read technical articles about Active Directory when you finish this book, plus you'll be prepared to develop an Active Directory deployment plan when the operational details of Windows 2000 become clearer. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Active Directory capabilities of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Coverage includes architecture, namespaces, domains, schema, replication, synchronization, the details of the trust model with Kerberos certificate support, and the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI).
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for security and replication info, but VERY redundant,
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This review is from: Understanding Active Directory Services (Strategic Technologies) (Paperback)
To it's credit, this book was helpful to internalize the replication and security principles of AD. And understandably, some people would rather sit down with a book than read online documentation. But like 80% of the books out there, I've read most of Microsoft's white papers on the subject, and unfortunately, I didn't gain much more from this book. While it has many helpful facts, those facts are readily accessible from AD docs. The other problem I have is the fact that certain facts are repeated six, seven, even eight times. The first seven chapters could have been pared down to two. Granted, I'm sure it was a push to get the book done as quickly as possible to keep the info current, but I'm going searching for a better work.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough substance,
By Ken Garove (Baltimore MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Understanding Active Directory Services (Strategic Technologies) (Paperback)
I am finishing this book as I write this review, with only one more chapter left to read. My hope was that I could actually install Active Directory on Win 2000 Advanced Server RC2, and intelligently configure a Windows 2000 LAN. This book did NOT help me to realize this goal. Perhaps my expectations were out of line. If you are looking for hands-on examples and practical advice, as well as a conceptual framework for AD, you will NOT find that information here. You will find high-level discussions of many complex technologies, but no real detail on any of them. The conceptual information is barely acceptable, but may satisfy non-technical practitioners. Another reviewer commented on tiresome and redundant repetition of AD concepts, and I did find this to be the case. O'Reilly has an Active Directory title slated for release in January that looks much more promising, assum
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