Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers

Active Directory domain controllers are your network's castles of identity. They offer services such as LDAP, Kerberos, and NTLM to people using devices, appliances, and servers. The previous chapter introduced the concepts of forests, trees, and domains. In this chapter, we are going to look at some more tangible things, such as server machines. But please don't take that literally; domain controllers these days are found to be virtual machines more often than physical machines.

I'll walk you through creating new domain controllers and show you which type of domain controller to implement. I'll also show you how to create domain controllers quickly, even when there's only a slow connection between the ...