Building an Enterprise Active Directory(tm) Notes from the Field

Author: Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Corporation
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ISBN: 0735608601
Publisher: Microsoft Press (01 March, 2000)
Sales Rank: 32,098
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent strategic book
One of the most important thing to remember about the Notes From The Field series books is that they are high-level - very strategic. This book is not a how-to step-by-step. For that, you'll need another source. The Administrator's Handbook is really good. That said, this is a really good book if you're planning an AD deployment, especially if your organization is plagued with growth in many directions and many disparate systems.

What's really great about this book is that it is scenario based. Most of the scenarios are fictitious, but there is an amazing inside look of how Compaq deployed AD after acquiring Tandem and DEC. Also, what I found valuable was separate sections on integrating other systems: NT4 domains, Unix DNS, and Novell NDS. As with all Notes From The Field series, this books provides valuable metrics - how to size the AD database, how much replication traffic to expect, etc. These metrics allow us to gauge bandwidth requirements BEFORE deployment.

Altogether, this book will give you an excellent perspective on assessing what is the best strategy on your migration, what impacts you're going to face, and most importantly, the risks you are taking during the migration. From here, you will have enough information on how to plan your migration. Good luck!

Rating: 5 out of 5
Enterprise Active Directory Services, Notes From the Field
I bought this book based on reviews and my experience with it's 'cousin', "Exchange Server 5.5 Notes From the Field". It was more than worth the money spent! After having taken some of the MCP classes on Windows 2000 AD, this built on those skills with real world scenarios and the bandwidth analysis figures for most every kind of network traffic in Windows 2000 will make it a handy reference in the near future. One thing worth noting outside the technical references of this book are the discussions about project management skills and being able to facilitate the numerous teams required to make the migration to AD happen. Other topics covered are: NDS/LDAP integration, AD scpriting, UNIX/DNS migration/co-existance and Exchange Server integration with the ADC.

Rating: 1 out of 5
Active Directory Propaganda
This book is strictly Microsoft Press throwing propaganda around about how great and wonderful AD is. My company rolled out AD and stopped because it was causing so many problems. This book is only good if you have MS babysitting you while you rollout so you can work around all of the bugs and share in the wonders of Microsoft and AD.

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