This chapter lists more than 600 common administrative tasks for the Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) platform. For the majority of these tasks, cross-references to specific sections within topics in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 are provided in which you can find useful information concerning the task and/or information about the tools for performing it. For a minority of these tasks, specific steps are outlined on how to perform the task, for example, configuring certain Group Policy settings to administer various aspects of WS2003.
This chapter is designed to make it easier for you to find useful information in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, which constitute the main reference portion of this work. Of course, you can always turn directly to a topic in Chapter 4 or a command in Chapter 5 and browse to find what you're looking for if you prefer. What makes this chapter useful, however, is that the level of concepts here is more granular than in the other chapters. For example, information on FSMO roles in Chapter 4 is found within the more general topic
Domain Controller , but in this chapter, there is a separate heading for FSMO roles that lists related tasks. Similarly, while the topic
Active Directory in Chapter 4 contains a great deal of information, few tasks are listed here in this chapter under
Active Directory because this heading is too broad. Look instead for more specific headings such as
Domains or
Objects or
Saved Queries to find tasks relating to these specific aspects of Active Directory.
The tasks in this chapter are listed in alphabetical order according to the main and specific concept involved. For example, "Configure a user account" is listed here under
user and not
account . Similarly, "Create an object in Active Directory" is listed here under
Objects and not
Active Directory . Take a moment to browse through this chapter before you use it, and you'll quickly get the idea. Note that commonly abbreviated terms such as DNS and OU are found here in their abbreviated form instead of being spelled out; see Appendix A for a quick list of abbreviations and acronyms.