Press Release
January 17, 2000
"Microsoft's Future of Win 2000 Rests onActive Directory" says O'Reilly Author
Sebastopol, CA--According to author Alistar G. Lowe-Norris, "Active
Directory is the single most important aspect of the Windows 2000 server
line of products. Microsoft's future of Windows 2000 rests on this
product." Active Directory is a fully qualified directory service. It is
such an important change, that systems administrators are likely to find
coming to grips with Active Directory will be one of their biggest
headaches. But it doesn't have to be that way. A new book by Lowe-Norris,
Windows 2000 Active
Directory (O'Reilly, $39.95), gives administrators an
in-depth knowledge of AD.
"Microsoft's Windows 2000 Active Directory is finally released in the
Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server products on February
17th 2000", says Lowe-Norris. "Many Windows NT technical architects and
systems administrators will be coming to Windows 2000 with little
experience on the Active Directory. A proper design process needs to be
considered for this product, with manageability post-deployment in the
minds of the designers. Management of the Active Directory can be reduced
using Group Policy Objects, with day-to-day management achieved using the
given tools or ones that you create yourself using scripting technologies
like ADSI and ADO. I wanted to explain the complex subject of the Active
Directory in simple terms so that the benefits of it could be gained
quickly for all size organizations."
Windows 2000 Active
Directory focuses on the practical, hands-on
information you need to design a reliable, scalable, and manageable Active
Directory for any size organization. Instead of a screen-by-screen
description of the graphical user interface, this book focuses on the tasks
you need to perform to manage your organization's directory effectively.
The heavy emphasis on scripting with the ADSI will help you automate tasks
to achieve greater reliability and save time. Windows 2000 Active Directory
is a practical guide to the new technology for the overworked system or
network administrator.
About the author:
Alistair G. Lowe-Norris currently works as an enterprise program manager at
Microsoft and previous to that was a system administrator at Leicester
University in the UK. For the past two years, he has been responsible for
the rollout of Windows 2000 and the replacement of the existing NetWare
installation at the university. He holds an MCSE and MCIS, and is a
frequent contributor to Windows NT Magazine.
Online Resources
Windows 2000 Active Directory
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
1st Edition January 2000
1-56592-638-2, 642 pages, $39.95
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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