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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Summary

ADAM is an extremely exciting product that is certainly going to find heavy use for both Microsoft and other applications in the enterprise environment. The flexibility it offers allows an Active Directory administrator to say "We can do that" more often now in order to support line of business applications and other functions that they would have never allowed near their domain-based Active Directory. Knowledge and understanding of ADAM will become more and more important to all Active Directory administrators going forward as more and more applications start to leverage it.

In this chapter, basic ADAM concepts, as well as some more advanced concepts, were discussed and explored. Next, differences between ADAM and Active Directory as well as updates in the R2 and SP1 versions of ADAM were discussed. A complete walkthrough of the installation of the core components of ADAM was provided, as well as walkthroughs for the installations of a standard unique instance and a replica instance with screenshots and tables illustrating decision points. Readers were also introduced to the new and updated tools that ship with ADAM. Finally, many ldifde.exe examples showing most aspects of creating and deleting objects and partitions were provided and discussed to help a new ADAM administrator quickly get up and running with a new ADAM instance.

The management tools for ADAM are sparse at the moment, but expect a great number of currently existing and all new tools to become available as ...

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