Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Chapter 14. Monitoring and Maintaining Active Directory

Even the best designed, planned, and implemented Active Directory infrastructures will not remain in optimum performing condition without routine monitoring and maintenance. The Active Directory directory service is a complex distributed network service and, particularly in larger organizations, will be subject to thousands of changes every day (such as created or deleted user accounts and their attributes, group membership, and permissions). To ensure that these changes and the ever-changing network and server environment on which the service is hosted do not negatively affect the performance of Active Directory, you must take proactive measures daily. This chapter examines the two fundamental ...