Active Directory ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION by Steve Clines and Marcia Loughry [...]... Active Directory in Windows Server 2008, including Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Certificate Services, and Active Directory Rights Management Services 2 Active Directory For Dummies, 2nd Edition ߜ A newbie (to networking or to information technology) who wants to pick up information on Active Directory ߜ A student preparing for. .. Understanding Active Director y .7 What Is Active Directory? 7 Active Directory is an umbrella 8 Active Directory is an information store 9 Active Directory has a structure (Or hierarchy) 11 Active Directory can be customized 11 Getting Hip to Active Directory Lingo 11 The building blocks of Active Directory 12 The Active Directory schema... prepare for an Active Directory design and deployment by looking at what requirements you have and developing an implementation plan Welcome to Active Directory! Chapter 1 Understanding Active Directory In This Chapter ᮣ Defining Active Directory ᮣ Examining the origins of Active Directory: X.500 ᮣ Understanding Active Directory terms ᮣ Investigating the benefits of Active Directory: What’s in it for you?... now called Active Directory Domain Services When I refer to the Active Directory umbrella as Active Directory, I make it clear that I’m not just talking about AD DS Additionally, when I refer to the other elements of AD, such as Active Directory Federation Services, I call it that or use its acronym Active Directory is an information store First and foremost, Active Directory is a store of information... Chapter 8 Active Directory Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Figure 1-1 : The Active Directory umbrella Active Directory Rights Management Services Active Directory Certificate Services Active Directory Federation Services Chapter 1: Understanding Active Directory Active Directory Federation Services Beginning in the R2 release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft... And, thanks for making Active Directory For Dummies your first resource for figuring out one of Microsoft’s hottest technologies! How This Book Is Organized I’ve divided this book into six parts, organized by topic The parts take you sequentially from Active Directory fundamentals through planning, deploying, and managing Active Directory If you’re looking for information on a specific Active Directory. .. A telephone directory is a store containing LAST NAME Adams fields of Baker information Smith FIRST NAME Alison Joe Alex ADDRESS 123 ABC Place 234 Tree Street 456 Forest Drive TELEPHONE NUMBER 00 0-1 2 3-4 567 00 0-1 2 3-4 568 00 0-1 2 3-4 569 This store of data as well as the capability of retrieving and modifying the data makes Active Directory a directory service Why then don’t I consider Active Directory to... the Active Directory environment In these chapters, you discover how to propagate updates, schedule replication traffic, work with the Active Directory schema, and maintain the Active Directory database 3 4 Active Directory For Dummies, 2nd Edition Part V: The Part of Tens In true For Dummies style, this book includes a Part of Tens These chapters introduce lists of ten items about a variety of informative... scope of what Active Directory is has greatly expanded Active Directory has become an umbrella for a number of technologies beyond what AD was in Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 (See Figure 1-1 .) You discover new uses for Active Directory in the paragraphs that follow Active Directory Domain Services What was AD in the two previous Windows Server operating systems is now Active Directory Domain... ADAM for short ADAM was designed to address an organization’s needs to deploy a directory service that didn’t necessarily need all the features that Active Directory provided Microsoft includes this application in Windows Server 2008 but renamed it Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services or AD LDS I talk about AD LDS in Chapter 8 Active Directory Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory . . . . . .7 What Is Active Directory? 7 Active Directory is an umbrella 8 Active Directory is an information store 9 Active Directory has a structure (Or hierarchy) 11 Active Directory can be customized. 124 Active Directory For Dummies, 2nd Edition xiv Part III: New Active Directory Features 127 Chapter 8: AD LDS: Active Directory on a Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 The Need for. 260 Backing Up the Active Directory Database 261 Restoring Active Directory 263 Non-authoritative restore 263 Authoritative restore 264 Preventing accidental deletions 265 Active Directory For Dummies,