Event Review: New Features of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory - Feature Based (Session TNT1-123)
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Session Outline
This session shows the new features available in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service, which 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, as well as 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.
Session Agenda
- New Deployment Features
- New Administration Features
- New Replication Features
- Forest-to-Forest Trusts
- Group Policy Management
- Software Restriction Policies
- Group Policy
Session Media
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| Demo: Deployment and Interoperability
Learn where Domain and Forest functionality levels are configured. Then create a domain controller from backup media using the DCPromo /adv switch and a backup of system state data.
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| Demo: New Administration Features
View some new Active Directory features such as drag-and-drop functionality in Active Directory Administration tools, as well as saved queries. Also, learn how to automate common tasks using Active Directory command-line tools.
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| Demo: New Replication Features
Enable universal group membership caching.
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| Demo: Forest-to-Forest Trusts
Create a two-way forest trust using the New Trust Wizard, and then access resources in the trusted forest.
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| Demo: Enterprise Group Policy Management
Use the Group Policy Management Console and then use the Group Policy Modeling Wizard to see how these policies will be applied. Finally, back up and import a group policy from one forest to another.
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| Demo: Software Restriction Policies
Configure Software Restriction Policies test the policy to see the effects of the applied policy.
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| Demo: Group Policy Restrictions and Reporting
Lock down Desktop and Start Menu settings and utilize the reporting functions of the Group Policy Management Console.
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Related Links
Use the following resources to learn more about topics covered in this briefing.
Microsoft Press Books
- Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Summary: This official first-look guide shows you exactly what's new and improved in this powerful network operating system, including advanced technologies for Web services and components, security, networking, Active Directory directory service, Microsoft Internet Information Services, support for IPv6, and more.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference
Summary: This book steps through the TCP/IP protocols and services that Windows Server 2003 supports to help you understand how they work and how they're implemented. It contains up-to-date information about Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), and virtual private networks (VPNs).
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion
Summary: This comprehensive administrator's reference describes operating system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for on-the-job results with the Windows Server 2003 family.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
Summary: Don't get caught at work without this handy guide to Windows Server 2003. It puts all the answers to questions about system administration at your fingertips.
- Active Directory for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference
Summary: Two Active Directory experts guide you through advanced design and deployment issues for the Windows Server 2003 environment and explain the underlying concepts, architectural components, and real-world functionality of Active Directory directory service.
Third-Party Books
- 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 Unleashed, 2nd Edition
Summary: Get a fresh perspective on planning, designing, implementing, and migrating to a Windows Server 2003 environment. The authors rely on their experience from several large client implementations to compile best practices, installation and migration tips and tricks, performance optimization techniques, configuration tuning, and server management techniques.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide
Summary: If you already know how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2000, you can use 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's changed in Windows Server 2003.
- Inside Windows Server 2003
Summary: This book contains comprehensive information on deploying, managing, and troubleshooting systems using both Windows Server 2003 and its predecessor. Each chapter contains a lively feature description followed by extensively illustrated procedures for setting up and managing each service.
- Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator's Repair Manual
Summary: This is the first complete guide to troubleshooting the vast interrelationships between Microsoft network technologies. A concise technical introduction at the beginning of each chapter brings readers up to speed on the technologies involved.
- 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.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions
Summary: Rather than being a traditional planning, design, and implementation guide, this book is a serious resource for Windows experts who seek 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.
- 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 this book 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, including enhancements in replication and Group Policy, forest trusts, functional levels, and working with dynamic objects.