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Title: Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide by Sakari Kouti, Mika Seitsonen ISBN: 0-201-61621-1 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The STANDARD for Active Directory Administration
Comment: I'm not sure what book the unimpressed reviewer below read, but it certainly wasn't this book. I've been a senior Active Directory Engineer at one of the largest international companies in the world for the past 2 1/2 years. Our implementation of Active Directory is one of the largest and most complex out there. Due to this, I've been searching everywhere for books that go beyond the 'beginning to intermediate' concepts that seem to dominant in other books.
With 'Inside Active Directory' I've truly found it. The way I tell if a book is worth its salt is to check some of the esoteric topics I've encountered, and see if the book covers them. I can say that I've yet to find something that these guys didn't cover in depth. Just the treatment on Security and Group Policies alone makes the book worth the cover price. But they don't stop there. They go through Active Directory with a fine-toothed comb and explore every nook and cranny, showing you details you'll never find anywhere else.
As an example, see if you can find other books that give you details on using the LDP tool to view deleted items. Or see how many other books talk about SDDL (Security Data Definition Language) that's used to establish default permissions for all object classes (including how to modify them). Or how about the overview of how Active Directory uses LDAP?
The only other book I've found that goes into this depth is the 'Windows 2000 Server Distributed Systems Guide' that's part of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. But it was much drier than this one, and even it had areas that it didn't cover.
Trust me on this one...if you're an Active Directory engineer or architect, this is the book you need. It's the companion that's going to help you keep your job if you're up in the middle of the night trying to understand how something works or why it's not working.
It's truly an amazing book. Well done, guys! I hope they write an update for this soon to cover AD 2003!
Rating: 2
Summary: Average AD book
Comment: Not sure what all the fuss about this book is over. I found the writing style to be dry and unimaginative. I found the chapters to be difficult to read and the explanations of the myriad of AD concepts to be quite difficult to follow at times.
Overall, this is a book that is packed with the nuts and bolts of AD, I just can't make it past the desert dry writing and the poor conceptual explanations.
Rating: 5
Summary: The must-have Active Directory book!
Comment: This is a must-have Active Directory book. As the title states, it takes you inside Active Directory. Good writing style doesn't bore. Good coverage of scripting. Excellent references.
This makes a great AD reference, in addition to 'Mission Critical Active Directory', and Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit - I regularly quote material from this book in class and highly recommend it to everyone interested in getting under the hood of AD.
Bharat Suneja
MCT
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Title: Active Directory, Second Edition by Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, Robbie Allen ISBN: 0596004664 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Exchange Server 2000 24seven by Jim McBee ISBN: 0782127975 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mastering Windows 2000 Server (4th Edition) by Mark Minasi, Christa Anderson, Brian M. Smith, Doug Toombs ISBN: 0782140432 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: DNS on Windows 2000 by Matt Larson, Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596002300 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Mission-Critical Active Directory: Architecting a Secure and Scalable Infrastructure by Micky Balladelli, Jan De Clercq ISBN: 1555582400 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $57.95 |
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