epub Active Directory Infrastructure Self-Study Training Kit (English Edition)

820 pages, 190,000 words... 2 Full-length Personal Training Guides in 1 Convenient Kit!
Includes the full contents of:
Active Directory Administration: The Personal Trainer
Windows Group Policy: The Personal Trainer

Read this training kit to learn everything you need to manage Active Directory and Group Policy effectively. This training kit gives you practical hands-on advice. By working step by step through essential tasks, you can learn to:

Install forests, domain trees, and child domains
Add and remove writable domain controllers
Deploy and manage read-only controllers
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot global catalog servers
Maintain directory and data integrity using operations masters
Evaluate sites, subnets, and replication before expanding a network
Establish a trust relationship between domains and between forests
Maintain and recover Active Directory Domain Services
Employ essential tools and command-line utilities
Configure Local GPOs and Active Directory-based GPOs
Manage policy preferences and settings
Model policy changes through the console
Maintain the SYSVOL
Diagnose and troubleshoot replication issues
Know when to enforce, block, or override inheritance
Filter policy settings, search GPOs, and manage permissions
Implement change control and advanced management
Manage operating system-specific deployment issues

This book is designed for anyone who manages Active Directory infrastructure, including those who manage or support computers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Inside, you'll find comprehensive overviews, step-by-step procedures, frequently used tasks, documented examples, and much more. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the book remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that the book is packed with as much information as possible--making it a valuable resource.

Training Kit Contents
Active Directory Administration: The Personal Trainer
Introduction 21
Chapter 1. Active Directory Essentials 25
Chapter 2. Installing New Forests, Domain Trees, and Child Domains 58
Chapter 3. Deploying Writeable Domain Controllers 109
Chapter 4. Deploying Read-Only Domain Controllers 154
Chapter 5. Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Global Catalog Servers 193
Chapter 6. Configuring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Operations Masters 235
Chapter 7. Managing Active Directory Sites, Subnets, and Replication 268
Chapter 8. Managing Trusts and Authentication 319
Chapter 9. Maintaining and Recovering Active Directory 360

Windows Group Policy: The Personal Trainer
Introduction 427
Chapter 1. Introducing Group Policy 431
Chapter 2. Deploying Group Policy 445
Chapter 3. Group Policy Management 487
Chapter 4. Advanced Group Policy Management 557
Chapter 5. Searching and Filtering Group Policy 613
Chapter 6. Maintaining the SYSVOL 658
Chapter 7. Managing Group Policy Processing 683
Chapter 8. Maintaining and Restoring Group Policy 732
Appendix A. Installing Group Policy Tools 788