This guide provides administering information for Active Directory in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) operating systems. Information includes detailed procedures for managing domain controllers, sites, trusts, and other components of Active Directory.

In this guide

• Introduction to Administering Active Directory
  
• New in This Guide for Administering Active Directory
  
• Administering Domain and Forest Trusts
  
• Administering the Windows Time Service
  
• Administering SYSVOL
  
• Administering the Global Catalog
  
• Administering Operations Master Roles
  
• Administering Active Directory Backup and Restore
  
• Administering Intersite Replication
  
• Administering the Active Directory Database
  
• Administering Domain Controllers
  
• Additional Resources for Administering Active Directory
  

Note
You cannot install Active Directory on a server running Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, but you can join the server to an Active Directory domain as a member server. For more information about Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, see Overview of Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, on the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=9253).

Acknowledgments

Key Technical Reviewers: Chris Macaulay, Nigel Cain, Arren Conner, Dmitry Dukat, Levon Esibov, Khushru Irani, Kamal Janardhan, Gregory Johnson, William Lees, Andreas Luther, Kevin Sims, Jeromy Statia, Eric Kool-Brown, J. K. Jaganathan, Mike Resnick, Michael Snyder, Nathan Muggli, Yi Zhao, Christopher Westpoint, Robert Powalka, Rob Kochman

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Reviewers: Joseph Shook, Thomas Bittner, Nuo Yan, Al Mulnick, Tony Murray, Guido Grillenmeier, M. Rajesh, Todd Myrick