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Planning & Designing Active Directory
and Windows 2000/03 Enterprise Networks
1-day workshop
The first day of Windows 2000/03 for IT Professionals 4-day workshop
may be taken as a stand-alone option. This intensive workshop
provides comprehensive insight, allowing you to architect an
effective plan for Active Directory, prepare your current network
for Windows 2000/03, and avoid costly mistakes during testing,
planning, and rollout.
Workshop Overview
- Active Directory unveiled: terms, tools, concepts &
structure
- Plan and design an Active Directory for your enterprise
- The schema - how attributes & object classes make it all
happen
- An introduction to ADSI and tasks you can automate with
VBScript and other tools
- Determine the most effective domain structure and naming
strategy for your organization
- Implement powerful DNS configurations and learn how to best
integrate Active Directory with your existing DNS servers
- Uncover command-line and resource kit tools that supplement
the GUI Active Directory management plug-ins, and learn what
gaps still exist
- Investigate Active Directory replication in enterprise
networks and lay out an effective site structure and replication
topology
- Avoid common and costly errors in the design of domains,
organizational units (OUs) & groups
- Analyze OU design strategies and Active Directory models and
select the best for your business
- Of course, you'll learn the skills to utilize the Active
Directory Installation Wizard (dcpromo.exe) to create domain
controllers and all of the MMC tools it takes to manage domains
& OUs
- Delegate administrative rights and privileges
- Centrally configure settings, security, and software using
Group Policy
- Integrating Active Directory with Windows NT/9x networks
- Examine support for down-level systems in Windows 2000/03's mixed
mode and unleash Active Directory's full power in native mode
- Integrate down-level systems with the Active Directory client
for Windows 9x and NT 4.0
- Determine the most effective migration plan from Windows NT
4.0 using migration (including the Active Directory Migration
Tool) or in-place domain upgrade
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