Active Directory Infrastructure Self-Study Training Kit

820 pages, 190,000 words... 2 Full-length Personal Training Guides in 1 Convenient Kit! Includes the full contents of: Active Directory Administration: The Personal Trainer Windows Group Policy: The Personal Trainer Read this training kit to learn everything you need to manage Active Directory and Group Policy effectively. This training kit gives you practical hands-on advice. By working step by step through essential tasks, you can learn to: Install forests, domain trees, and child domains Add and remove writable domain controllers Deploy and manage read-only controllers Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot global catalog servers Maintain directory and data integrity using operations masters Evaluate sites, subnets, and replication before expanding a network Establish a trust relationship between domains and between forests Maintain and recover Active Directory Domain Services Employ essential tools and command-line utilities Configure Local GPOs and Active Directory-based GPOs Manage policy preferences and settings Model policy changes through the console Maintain the SYSVOL Diagnose and troubleshoot replication issues Know when to enforce, block, or override inheritance Filter policy settings, search GPOs, and manage permissions Implement change control and advanced management Manage operating system-specific deployment issues This book is designed for anyone who manages Active Directory infrastructure, including those who manage or support computers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Inside, you'll find comprehensive overviews, step-by-step procedures, frequently used tasks, documented examples, and much more. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the book remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that the book is packed with as much information as possible--making it a valuable resource. Training Kit Contents Active Directory Administration: The Personal Trainer Introduction 21 Chapter 1. Active Directory Essentials 25 Chapter 2. Installing New Forests, Domain Trees, and Child Domains 58 Chapter 3. Deploying Writeable Domain Controllers 109 Chapter 4. Deploying Read-Only Domain Controllers 154 Chapter 5. Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Global Catalog Servers 193 Chapter 6. Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Operations Masters 235 Chapter 7. Managing Active Directory Sites, Subnets, and Replication 268 Chapter 8. Managing Trusts and Authentication 319 Chapter 9. Maintaining and Recovering Active Directory 360 Windows Group Policy: The Personal Trainer Introduction 427 Chapter 1. Introducing Group Policy 431 Chapter 2. Deploying Group Policy 445 Chapter 3. Group Policy Management 487 Chapter 4. Advanced Group Policy Management 557 Chapter 5. Searching and Filtering Group Policy 613 Chapter 6. Maintaining the SYSVOL 658 Chapter 7. Managing Group Policy Processing 683 Chapter 8. Maintaining and Restoring Group Policy 732 Appendix A. Installing Group Policy Tools 788 Read more