Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches ebook

by Richard Siddaway

Richard Siddaway Networking and Cloud Computing English

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Without assuming previous administration experience, the book starts by walking you through the most important day-to-day system management tasks.

More books in the 'Month of Lunches' series. i highly recommend it for anyone needing to learn it and other useful tips and tricks, really awesome book to have. Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He is interested in automation techniques, including automating job creation and submission on mainframes. One person found this helpful.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF eBook from Manning.

It skips the theory and concentrates on the day to day administrative tasks needed to keep networks running smoothly.

Publisher: Manning Publications. Release Date: February 2014. View table of contents.

Summary

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a practical, hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. It skips the theory and concentrates on the day-to-day administration tasks you need to know to keep your network running smoothly. Just set aside an hour a day for a month—lunchtime would be perfect—and you'll be comfortable and productive with Active Directory before you know it.

About the Book

At the heart of your Windows network is Active Directory, the control center for administration, security, and other core management functions. If you're new to Active Directory administration—or if you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into that role—you'll need to get up to speed fast.

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. Without assuming previous administration experience, the book starts by walking you through the most important day-to-day system management tasks. You'll learn how to administer AD both from the GUI tools built into Windows and by using PowerShell at the command line. Along the way, you'll touch on best practices for managing user access, setting group policies, automating backups, and more.

This book assumes no prior experience with Active Directory or Windows administration. Examples are based in Windows Server 2012

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

ADM tasks you'll need every dayGUI and command line techniquesContent tested by new administratorsWell-illustrated, clearly explained examples

About the Author

Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He's the author of PowerShell in Practice andPowerShell and WMI, and coauthor of PowerShell in Depth.

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATABefore you beginCreating user accountsManaging user accountsManaging groupsTroubleshooting users and groupsManaging computer accountsManaging organizational unitsPART 2 MANAGING GROUP POLICYCreating Group PoliciesManaging Group PoliciesFine-grained password policiesPART 3 MANAGING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICECreating domain controllersManaging domain controllersProtecting AD data Security: Default groups and delegationManaging DNSManaging sites and subnetsAD replicationManaging AD trustsPART 4 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTINGTroubleshooting your AD Maintaining and monitoring Active DirectoryFuture work and final examInto the cloud

Rishason

I'm exactly the audience the author states this book is geared towards. I am an IT Professional who has found himself responsible for (helping) administrate a Windows Active Directory. I am currently a PM but about 10 years ago I was a programmer, mostly on the web, specifically Java. So I consider myself relatively technical.

With that said, I strongly criticize Mr. Siddaway and his editor for doing a VERY POOR JOB for testing if the provided scripts actually work. I am talking about scripts he includes in the "Try It Now" and "Lab" sections of every chapter (I am only in Chp 7). He consistently miss colons, adds extra spaces and/or uses variables (unsure if that is the actual term in AD) that cause script errors.

This is very frustrating for a person who doesn't know anything about Powershell and assumes the scripts provided in a book are actually usable and not simply psuedo-code. I have wasted hours trying to get scripts to work.

At this point I am unsure if I should simply ditch this book and find a better guide OR continue but skip the sections that discuss PowerShell. Which is 25-30% of every chapter so far.

Perilanim

Good book to provide some context on AD and Powershell however that is really where it ends. There were syntax errors and also noticed that the author did not really provide a template to create a lab environment for. Would be nice in the next update to perhaps include some guidance on the set ups so users can save time. You learn more about powershell than you do AD with this one.

Ichalote

This was more info than I needed...does anyone really use this method of making changes in Active Directory

Wen

this has been so helpful for learning the Active Directory management. i highly recommend it for anyone needing to learn it and other useful tips and tricks, really awesome book to have.

Wooden Purple Romeo

I like this series, as it provides basic practical examples and minimizes arcane terminology.

Maldarbaq

This was very easy to read and understand. It made sense.

Ranterl

Great book, clearly written.

Just going through it now