Learning guide: Managing your Active Directory

By SearchWin2000.com editorial team 10 Oct 2005 | SearchWinIT.com

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So, with the help of our first Learning Guide: Planning and Designing your Active Directory you've designed, tested and rolled out Active Directory. Now what? We've gathered together our best AD administration and management resources. These chapters will help you get the most out of all the new AD features and services. Drop me an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchWin2000.com. Brendan Cournoyer, Assistant Editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
   Administration and replication
   Securing Active Directory
   Tools and techniques
   DNS tips and tricks
   Group Policy
   Resources
   More Learning Guides

Administration and replication
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• Active Directory replication convergence
  
• Chapter of the Week: The Windows XP/2000 Answer Book: A Complete Resource from the Desktop to the Enterprise -- Chapter 15, 'Active Directory'
  
• Understanding Active Directory replication, chapter 14
  
• Streamlined Replication in Windows Server 2003
  
• Creating AD replicas from backup tapes
  

Securing Active Directory
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• Handling patch emergencies
  
• Challenge: Make sure you have a secure Active Directory network by securing domain controllers
  
• Securing your Active Directory network
  
• White paper: Securing Windows 2000 Active Directory, part 1
  
• White paper: Securing Windows 2000 Active Directory, part 2
  
• White paper: Securing Windows 2000 Active Directory, part 3
  
• Chapter of the Week: Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide -- Chapter 4, 'Securing Active Directory'
  
• Securing an administrator's computer
  
• Securely juggling service admin accounts
  
• Active Directory security best practices
  
• What's in a name? Active Directory security under the covers
  
• SIDs help tighten AD security
  

Tools and techniques
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• Best practices for Active Directory staff development
  
• AD Disaster Recovery, Part 1: Building redundancy in AD replication
  
• Active Directory disaster recovery, Part 2: Recovering a domain controller from backup
  
• Active Directory disaster recovery, Part 3: Recovering a DC using "Install from Media"
  
• Avoiding Active Directory's trouble spots
  
• Into Active Directory scripting? Get to know Joe
  
• New AD tool brings users 'back from the dead'
  
• Upgrading from 2000 domain to 2003 domain
  
• Working with the administrator password
  
• Best practices for AD and share permissions
  
• Checklist: Preparing to deploy Active Directory
  
• Speedily deploy new domain controllers
  
• Designing two Active Directory domains in a client network
  

DNS tips and tricks
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• Why protect DNS?
  
• Protecting DNS servers
  
• Protecting DNS servers -- Part 2
  
• Protecting DNS Servers - Part 3
  
• Protecting DNS servers - Part 4
  
• Chapter of the Week: The Windows XP/2000 Answer Book: A Complete Resource from the Desktop to the Enterprise -- Chapter 18, 'DNS'
  
• DNS Primer: Tips for understanding Active Directory integrated zone design and configuration
  
• Active Directory-integrated DNS zones and the case of the disappearing zones!
  
• What is the best naming convention for the DNS suffix?
  
• Black hole server attempting to force DNS record
  

Group Policy
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• Group Policy Learning Guide
  
• Group Policy's complexity sows fear in many
  
• Control Your Group Policies, Don't Let Them Control You
  
• What's new with status GPOs?
  
• Pros and cons of using ADM templates to customize Active Directory group policies
  
• Enforcing Group Policy Object settings
  
• Ten attacks you can easily avoid with Group Policy
  
• Protecting against anonymous connections using GPOs
  
• Chapter of the Week: MCSE Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure Study Guide -- Chapter 7, 'Managing and maintaining Group Policy'
  
• Chapter of the Week: Group Policy, Profiles and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP -- Chapter 8, 'Profiles -- Local, Roaming and Mandatory'
  
• Creating user home directories on a Windows 2003 network
  
• How can I apply Group Policy to Windows 2000 clients?
  
• Ask Group Policy Expert, Jeremy Moskowitz
• Ask Group Policy Expert, Derek Melber

Resources
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• Learning Center: Active Directory Topics
  
• Learning Center: Group Policy Topics
  
• Learning Center: Staffing strategies
  
• Learning Center: Troubleshooting Update
  
• Ask Paul Hinsberg: Active Directory expert
  
• Ask Laura Hunter: Active Directory expert
  

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