Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Server 2008 in 24 Hours

Chapter 8. Understanding and Configuring Active Directory Domain Services

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding Active Directory Domain Services

• Planning the Active Directory Hierarchy

• Installing Active Directory Domain Services and Creating the Root Domain

• Adding a Regional (Child) Domain

• Using the Active Directory Management Tools

• Working with Domain User Accounts

• Working with Active Directory Objects

To most network professionals who work with Microsoft server platforms, the Active Directory approach to managing users, network devices, and other network resources has become second nature. However, the Active Directory logical structure was only introduced several years ago with the introduction of Windows 2000 Server, which radically changed ...