Active Directory Cookbook

1.5. Where to Find More Information

While it is my hope that this book provides you with enough information to perform most of the tasks you need to do to maintain your Active Directory environment, it is not realistic to think every possible task has been covered. In fact, there is easily another three to four chapters I could have included in this book, but due to space and time considerations, it was not possible for this edition. Working on this book has made me realize just how must stuff Active Directory administrators need to know.

Now that Active Directory has been around for a few years, a significant user base has been built, which has led to other great resources of information. This section contains some of the useful sources of information that I use on a regular basis.

Command-Line Tools

If you have any questions about the complete syntax or usage information for any of the command-line tools I use, you should first take a look at the help information for the tools. The vast majority of CLI tools provide syntax information by simply passing /? as a parameter. For example:

> dsquery /?

Microsoft Knowledge Base

The Microsoft Support web site is a great source of information and is home of the Microsoft Knowledge Base (MS KB) articles. Throughout the book, I include references to pertinent MS KB articles where you can find more information on the topic. You can find the complete text for a KB article by searching on the KB number at the following web site: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx ...