Event Review: New Features of Windows Server 2003 Active Directory - Feature Based (Session ITPROADD-04)
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Session Outline
This session shows the new features available in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory that deliver key strategic benefits for medium and large corporations, enabling greater administrator and user productivity. This session covers most aspects of Active Directory operations and new features for deployment, administration and management, forest trusts, Group Policies, and application support. With Active Directory, organizations can benefit from further reductions in cost while increasing the efficiency by which they share and manage the various elements of the enterprise. This session highlights the new features and provides context about each feature to illuminate why the feature is beneficial, how it saves time and money, or to explain specific problems the feature addresses. This session targets anyone considering upgrading to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (either from Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000), as well as first-time adopters who will see how Active Directory has been refined in this release.
Use the following resources to learn more about topics covered in this briefing.
Microsoft Press Books
Third-Party Books
Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services
Summary: Learn how to programmatically manage and monitor Active Directory in a large-scale environment. The authors, who lead Cisco's Active Directory deployment and management initiative, focus on post-deployment issues surrounding Active Directory. Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition
Summary: The most practical, comprehensive, and highly praised guide to Active Directory has now been fully updated for Windows Server 2003. The second edition of Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide offers a definitive reference to the design, architecture, installation, and management of Active Directory, the cornerstone technology within Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 distributed networks. This new edition—based on the final release software of Windows Server 2003—emphasizes security and covers all the new features and discusses enhancements in replication and Group Policy, forest trusts, functional levels, and working with dynamic objects. Inside Windows Server 2003
Summary: This book is designed to lead a class through the complexities of a full Windows Server 2003 deployment. Each chapter starts off with a list of new features in Windows Server 2003, along with any significant improvements to features carried over from Windows 2000. It then presents design principles, followed by procedures to install and configure the aspects of Windows Server 2003 covered in that chapter. The coverage is comprehensive, in-depth, practical, and authoritative. Many helpful examples are presented to illustrate the concepts. All along the way the author includes proven advice for improving stability and performance. Windows Server 2003 represents a new emphasis from Microsoft on trustworthy computing, so security issues are covered extensively. The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide
Summary: Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows NT Server, is designed to accommodate the seamless exchange of information through Web services. It delivers the increased flexibility and power needed to administer networks as global entities, but its enhanced management tools and security features present as many challenges as opportunities. The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator?s Guide will help readers negotiate these challenges and exploit the opportunities. Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in 24 Hours
Summary: This is a straightforward, step-by-step introduction to Microsoft's newest network operating system. This book not only highlights the functions and capabilities of the software but also provides a practical look at important server features and tools. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide
Summary: If you already know how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2000, you can leverage those skills to quickly become an expert on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This guide skips the basics and moves straight to what;s new and what has changed in Windows Server 2003. Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator's Repair Manual
Summary: This is the first complete guide to troubleshooting the vast interrelationships of Microsoft network technologies. A concise technical introduction at the outset of each chapter brings readers up to speed on the technologies involved. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions
Summary: Instead of a traditional planning, design, and implementation guide, this book is a serious resource for Windows experts to find tips, tricks, and best practices for implementing and supporting key Windows Server 2003 technologies. Sections include security, management, design, migration, business continuity, performance, and business productivity.
Training and Certification
Course 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Five days (classroom/online)
Summary: This course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Five days, instructor-led
Summary: This five day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage accounts and resources in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on Active Directory directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers Course 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Three days, instructor-led
Summary: This three day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family. Course 2278: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Five days, instructor-led
Summary: The goal of this five day course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and maintain a Windows. Server 2003 network infrastructure. Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure: Five days, instructor-led
Summary: This course provides the knowledge and skills to successfully plan, implement, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service infrastructure. Course 2282: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure: Five days, instructor-led
Summary: This five day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design a Microsoft Active Directory directory service and network infrastructure for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems engineers who are responsible for designing directory service or network infrastructures.
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