Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server (Repost)

Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server covers Active Directory, what Microsoft calls the "next generation of Directory Services." Active Directory provides a single point of administration for Windows 2000 users and administrators. In NT 4, Directory Services were tools for organizing and managing certain objects in a computing system. Those objects are comprised of printers, documents, databases, email addresses, users and other resources. Active Directory was created to handle the more complex objects of a networked environment. In addition to these objects, Active Directory will manage naming, querying, administrative, registration, and resolution needs. * Includes coverage of vendor-specific implementations of Active Directory (such as Cisco and Oracle) * Covers an integral part of the operating system and drills down to cover the directory services of Windows 2000 * Windows 2000 Support for open standards, DNS, and LDAP * Support for standard name formats * The Active Directory API * Drag-and-drop administration * Extensible schema * The global catalog * Backward compatibility with previous versions of NT 4 * Interoperability with NetWare