Provides solutions to 322 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating the active directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows server 2003. The recipes include creating domains and trusts, renaming a domain controller, finding users whose passwords are about to expire, applying a security filter to group policy objects, checking for potential replication problems, restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries, and viewing DNS server performance statistics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Robbie Allen is a Senior Systems Architect in the Advanced Services Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He was instrumental in the deployment and automation of Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP at Cisco. Robbie enjoys working on the Unix and Windows platforms, especially when Perl is installed. He is a firm believer that all system administrators should be proficient in at least one scripting language and most of his writings preach the benefits of automation. Robbie has a web site at www.rallenhome.com.