Event Review: New Features of Windows Server 2003 Active Directory - Scenario-based (Session TNT1-124)
Session Outline
This session shows how new Active Directory features can benefit in specific management, deployment, and maintenance scenarios. This presentation is broken into four sections, each section specifies a scenario that addresses pain points from Windows 2000 Active Directory deployments, and shows how new features of Windows Server 2003 addresses those pain points and makes management, and deployment easier. The four scenarios are: Active Directory administration, connecting separate forests, deploying Active Directory at small and branch offices, and Group Policy Management. This session targets small, medium, and large organizations that have deployed Active Directory or have chosen to wait for Windows Server 2003 to deploy Active Directory in order to address specific issues covered in these scenarios.
Session Agenda
- Active Directory Administration
- Forest Trusts
- Active Directory in Small and Remote Offices
- Group Policy Management Console
- Software Restriction Policies
Session Media
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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
Summary: This book provides 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 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'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 of Microsoft network technologies. A concise technical introduction at the outset of each chapter brings readers up to speed on the technologies involved. - Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services
Summary: Learn to 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: 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. - 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, including enhancements in replication and Group Policy, forest trusts, functional levels, and working with dynamic objects.
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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