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About This Book

Welcome to the MCSE Training Kit—Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Services. This kit prepares you to install, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory.

This kit introduces you to Windows 2000 Active Directory and prepares you to plan, configure, and administer your Active Directory infrastructure. You will learn to configure Domain Name System (DNS) to manage name resolution, schema, and replication. You will also learn to use Active Directory to centrally manage users, groups, shared folders, and network resources, and to administer the user environment and software with group policy. This kit shows you how to implement and troubleshoot security in a directory services infrastructure and monitor and optimize Active Directory performance. You also learn to deploy Windows 2000 remotely using Remote Installation Services (RIS).

This course supports the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer program.

NOTE
For more information on becoming a Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer, see the section of this chapter titled "The Microsoft Certified Professional Program."

Each chapter in this book is divided into lessons. Most lessons include hands-on procedures that allow you to practice or demonstrate a particular concept or skill. Each chapter ends with a short summary of all chapter lessons and a set of review questions to test your knowledge of the chapter material.

The "Getting Started" section of this chapter provides important setup instructions that describe the hardware and software requirements to complete the procedures in this course. It also provides information about the networking configuration necessary to complete some of the hands-on procedures. Read through this
section thoroughly before you start the lessons.

Intended Audience

This book has been developed for information system (IS) professionals who need to install, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory, or who plan to take the related Microsoft
Certified Professional exam 70-217, Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure.

Prerequisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

A knowledge of the fundamentals of current networking technology is required.

Successful completion of the MCSE Training Kit—Microsoft Windows 2000 Server is recommended.

Reference Materials

You might find the following reference materials useful:

Windows 2000 white papers and case studies, available online at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/server/

Windows 2000 Server Help, available on the Start Menu when Windows 2000 Server is installed

Windows 2000 Support Tools Help, available on the Start, Programs, Windows 2000 Support Tools Menu when Windows 2000 Support Tools are installed

Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit, in print format or on CD-ROM

Features of This Book

Each chapter opens with a "Before You Begin" section, which prepares you for completing the chapter.

Each chapter is divided into lessons. Whenever possible, the lessons contain practices that give you an opportunity to use the skills being presented or to explore the part of the application being described. These practices are placed at the end of lessons and consist of one or more exercises containing procedures. Each procedure is marked with a bullet symbol like the one to the left of this paragraph.

IMPORTANT
The additional procedures that are not included within the practice sections are intended as general information to advance your knowledge of Windows 2000 Active Directory. Because many of the practices build on procedures you do in earlier practices, if you work through the additional procedures in the general text of the book you may alter the state of your test machine and may not be able to carry out subsequent practices exactly as they are presented.

The "Review" section at the end of the chapter allows you to test what you have learned in the chapter's lessons.

Appendix A, "Questions and Answers," contains all of the book's questions and corresponding answers.

Notes

Several types of Notes appear throughout the lessons.

Notes marked Note contain supplemental information.

Notes marked Important contain information that is essential to completing a task.

Notes marked Caution contain warnings about possible loss of data.

Notes marked Tip contain explanations of possible results or alternative methods.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this book.

Notational Conventions

Characters or commands that you type appear in bold lowercase type.

Italic in syntax statements indicates placeholders for variable information. Italic is also used for book titles.

Names of files appear in Title Caps, except when you are to type them directly. Unless otherwise indicated, you can use all lowercase letters when you type a filename in a dialog box or at a command prompt.

Filename extensions appear in all lowercase.

Acronyms appear in all uppercase.

Monospace type represents code samples, examples of screen text, or entries that you might type at a command prompt or in initialization files.

Square brackets [ ] are used in syntax statements to enclose optional items. For example, [filename] in command syntax indicates that you can choose to type a file name with the command. Type only the information within the brackets, not the brackets themselves.

Braces { } are used in syntax statements to enclose required items. Type only the information within the braces, not the braces themselves.

Icons represent specific sections in the book as follows:

Keyboard Conventions

A plus sign (+) between two key names means that you must press those keys at the same time. For example, "Press Alt+Tab" means that you hold down Alt while you press Tab.

A comma ( , ) between two or more key names means that you must press each of the keys consecutively, not together. For example, "Press Alt, F, X" means that you press and release each key in sequence. "Press Alt+W, L" means that you first press Alt and W together, and then release them and press L.

You can choose menu commands with the keyboard. Press the Alt key to activate the menu bar, and then sequentially press the keys that correspond to the highlighted or underlined letter of the menu name and the command name. For some commands, you can also press a key combination listed in the menu.

You can select or clear check boxes or option buttons in dialog boxes with the keyboard. Press Tab until the option is highlighted, and then press the spacebar to select or clear the check box or option button.

You can cancel the display of a dialog box by pressing the Esc key.