Intended Audience & Prerequisites.
Reference Materials.
About the Supplemental Course Materials CD-ROM.
Features of This Book.
Chapter and Appendix Overview.
Getting Started.
The Microsoft Certified Professional Program.
Technical Support.
Evaluation Edition Software Support.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Active Directory.
Lesson 1: Active Directory Overview.
Lesson 2: Understanding Active Directory Concepts.
Chapter
2. Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure.
Lesson 1: Design Overview.
Lesson 2: Analyzing the Current Business Environment.
Lesson 3: Analyzing the Current Technical Environment.
Lab 2.1: Analyzing Business Environment.
Chapter 3: Creating a Plan.
Lesson 1: Designing a Model.
Activity 3.1: Designing a Forest Model.
Lesson 2: Designing a Schema Modification Plan.
Lab 3.1: Creating a Model and Schema Modification Plan.
Exercise 1: Designing a Model.
Exercise 2: Designing a Schema Modification Plan.
Chapter 4: Creating a Domain Plan.
Lesson 1: Defining Domains.
Activity 4.1: Defining Domains.
Scenario 1: Friendship Vineyards.
Scenario 2: Awesome Computers.
Lesson 2: Defining a Root Domain.
Lesson 3: Defining a Domain Hierarchy.
Lesson 4: Naming Domains.
Activity 4.2: Defining a Root Domain, Defining a Domain Hierarchy, and Naming Domains.
Scenario 1: Friendship Vineyards.
Scenario 2: Awesome Computers.
Lesson 5: Planning DNS Server Deployment.
Lab 4.1: Creating a Domain Plan.
Chapter 5: Creating an Organizational Unit Plan.
Lesson 1: Defining OU Structures.
Activity 5.1: Defining OU Structures.
Lesson 2: Planning User Accounts and Groups.
Activity 5.2: Planning User Accounts.
Activity 5.3: Planning Groups.
Lab 5.1: Defining an OU Structure and Security Groups.
Exercise 5.1: Defining an OU Structure.
Exercise 5.2: Defining Groups.
Chapter 6:Creating a Site Topology Plan.
Lesson 1: Defining Sites.
Lesson 2: Placing Domain Controllers in Sites.
Activity 6.1: Defining Sites and Placing Domain Controllers in Sites.
Lesson 3: Defining a Replication Strategy.
Lesson 4: Placing Global Catalog Servers and Operations Masters.
Activity 6.2: Using Active Directory Sizer.
Lab 6.1: Creating a Site Topology Plan.
Chapter 7: Creating an Active Directory Implementation Plan.
Lesson 1: Planning a Migration from Windows NT 4 Directory Services to Windows 2000 Active Directory.
Lesson 2: Planning Directory Service Synchronization with Active Directory
Lab 7.1: Planning a Windows NT 4 Directory Services Migration to Windows 2000 Active Directory.
Appendix A: Questions and Answers.
Appendix B: Base Schema Class Objects.
Appendix C: Base Schema Attribute Objects.
Glossary.
Index.
