Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches (Paperback)

Summary

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a practical, hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. It skips the theory and concentrates on the day-to-day administration tasks you need to know to keep your network running smoothly. Just set aside an hour a day for a month—lunchtime would be perfect—and you'll be comfortable and productive with Active Directory before you know it.

About the Book

At the heart of your Windows network is Active Directory, the control center for administration, security, and other core management functions. If you're new to Active Directory administration—or if you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into that role—you'll need to get up to speed fast.

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. Without assuming previous administration experience, the book starts by walking you through the most important day-to-day system management tasks. You'll learn how to administer AD both from the GUI tools built into Windows and by using PowerShell at the command line. Along the way, you'll touch on best practices for managing user access, setting group policies, automating backups, and more.

This book assumes no prior experience with Active Directory or Windows administration. Examples are based in Windows Server 2012

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

• ADM tasks you'll need every day
• GUI and command line techniques
• Content tested by new administrators
• Well-illustrated, clearly explained examples

About the Author

Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He's the author of PowerShell in Practice andPowerShell and WMI, and coauthor of PowerShell in Depth.

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATA

1. Before you begin
2. Creating user accounts
3. Managing user accounts
4. Managing groups
5. Troubleshooting users and groups
6. Managing computer accounts
7. Managing organizational units

PART 2 MANAGING GROUP POLICY

8. Creating Group Policies
9. Managing Group Policies
10. Fine-grained password policies

PART 3 MANAGING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE

11. Creating domain controllers
12. Managing domain controllers
13. Protecting AD data
14. Security: Default groups and delegation
15. Managing DNS
16. Managing sites and subnets
17. AD replication
18. Managing AD trusts

PART 4 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

19. Troubleshooting your AD
20. Maintaining and monitoring Active Directory
21. Future work and final exam
22. Into the cloud

摘要

在一個月的午餐時間學習Active Directory管理是一本實用的、實戰導向的教程，專為新手IT專業人士設計，跳過理論，專注於日常管理任務，讓您了解保持網絡運行順暢所需的知識。只需每天花一小時的時間，一個月下來，您將能夠熟練且高效地使用Active Directory。

關於本書

在您的Windows網絡的核心是Active Directory，這是管理、安全和其他核心管理功能的控制中心。如果您是新手Active Directory管理員，或者突然被推到這個角色中，您需要快速上手。

在一個月的午餐時間學習Active Directory管理是一本實戰教程，專為新手IT專業人士設計。本書不假設您有先前的管理經驗，從最重要的日常系統管理任務開始引導您。您將學習如何使用Windows內置的GUI工具和使用PowerShell命令行來管理AD。在學習過程中，您將接觸到管理用戶訪問權限、設置群組策略、自動備份等最佳實踐。

本書不需要任何先前的Active Directory或Windows管理經驗。示例基於Windows Server 2012。

購買印刷版書籍將包含Manning Publications提供的PDF、Kindle和ePub格式的免費電子書。

內容簡介

• 您每天需要的ADM任務


• GUI和命令行技術


• 新管理員測試過的內容


• 圖文並茂，解釋清晰的示例

關於作者

Richard Siddaway是一位經驗豐富的全方位Windows管理員，擁有二十年的經驗。他是PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell and WMI的作者，以及PowerShell in Depth的合著者。

目錄

第1部分 管理Active Directory數據



1. 開始之前


2. 創建用戶帳戶


3. 管理用戶帳戶


4. 管理群組


5. 故障排除用戶和群組


6. 管理計算機帳戶


7. 管理組織單位



第2部分 管理群組策略



8. 創建群組策略


9. 管理群組策略


10. 細粒度密碼策略



第3部分 管理Active Directory服務



11. 創建域控制器


12. 管理域控制器


13. 保護AD數據


14. 安全性：默認群組和委派


15. 管理DNS


16. 管理站點和子網


17. AD複製


18. 管理AD信任



第4部分 維護和故障排除



19. 故障排除您的AD


20. 維護和監控Active Directory


21. 未來工作和期末考試


22. 進入雲端