Active Directory Cookbook

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When you need practical support for Active Directory, this updated edition of the popular Cookbook offers quick solutions to over 300 common and uncommon problems encountered while deploying, administering, and automating Microsoft's network directory service. Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter provides troubleshooting recipes based on input from Windows administrators and her own experience. Solutions cover LDAP, ADAM, multi-master replication, DNS, Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and more. The Cookbook helps you perform tasks from the command line, automate processes using scripting technologies, manage new features like Read-Only Domain Controllers and fine-grained password policies, create domains and trusts, locate users with expiring passwords, apply security filters to group policy objects, check for replication issues, and monitor DNS server performance. Each recipe includes discussions explaining the solutions, allowing you to adapt techniques to similar situations. This resource is ideal for IT professionals using Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, and Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, particularly those looking to automate tasks. The introduction of PowerShell examples will appeal to those transitioning from VBScript, while the comprehensive coverage of changes to Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 enhances its relevance.