Active Directory Cookbook

What’s in This Book?

This book consists of 18 chapters. Here is a brief overview of each chapter:

• Chapter 1, sets the stage for the book by covering where you can find the tools used in the book, VBScript and Perl issues to consider, and where to find additional information.

• Chapter 2, covers how to create and remove forests and domains, update the domain mode or functional levels, create different types of trusts, and other administrative trust tasks.

• Chapter 3, covers promoting and demoting domain controllers, finding domain controllers, enabling the global catalog, and finding and managing Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles.

• Chapter 4, covers the basics of searching Active Directory; creating, modifying, and deleting objects; using LDAP controls; and importing and exporting data using LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) and comma-separated variable (CSV) files.

• Chapter 5, covers creating, moving, and deleting Organizational Units, and managing the objects contained within them.

• Chapter 6, covers all aspects of managing user objects, including creating, renaming, moving, resetting passwords, unlocking, modifying the profile attributes, and locating users that have certain criteria (e.g., password is about to expire).

• Chapter 7, covers how to create groups, modify group scope, and type and manage membership.

• Chapter 8, covers creating computers, joining computers to a domain, resetting computers, and locating computers that match certain criteria (e.g., have been inactive ...