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Understanding Active Directory Services (Strategic Technologies)
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by Daniel Blum
Sales Rank: 1923363
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Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press October 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1572317213
ISBN-13: 978-1572317215
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 6.8 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
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).
Customer Reviews & Comments
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.
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