Core MCSE, W/CD

Start by analyzing your business goals and existing technical infrastructure, including your company's geographical scope, processes, priorities, anticipated growth, risk tolerance, IT structure, user community, available bandwidth, and other key factors. Examine the impact of Active Directory on existing systems and applications, on upgrades and rollouts, technical support staff, and on your processes for network, systems, and desktop management. Next, design an optimal directory service architecture, including scope, namespace, and DNS strategies; forest, domain, and OU structures, Active Directory sites, and implementation plans. Finally, discover the best ways to design service locations, global catalog servers, and operations masters to achieve maximum performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and manageability. The book contains hundreds of review questions, as well as a CD-ROM with bonus Active Directory training from SmartForce, one of the world's leading suppliers of computer-based training.

Pass Microsoft's Active Directory MCP Exam 70-219 -- one of the core MCSE electives -- with flying colors!

• Covers the entire Active Directory design process -- from identifying business requirements through architecture, naming strategies, OU structure, service locations, performance, fault tolerance, and more.
• Practical techniques for optimizing performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and manageability.
• Includes bonus CD-ROM with SmartForce online training module covering Active Directory -- plus access to additional SmartForce online modules at www.smartforce.com!

For every Windows 2000 professional working with Active Directory or planning to take Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Infrastructure Exam 70-219.