Chapter 17 -- Installing and Configuing Active Directory Directory Service

Chapter 17

About This Chapter

The success of your Microsoft Windows 2000 implementation depends on your plan for implementing and configuring Active Directory directory service. This chapter assists you in planning your Active Directory implementation. It walks you through the steps of installing Active Directory using the Active Directory Installation Wizard, shows you how to implement an organizational unit (OU) structure, and presents procedures for setting OU properties. The chapter then introduces you to configuring site settings and inter-site replication after Active Directory is installed. This chapter also discusses the tasks necessary for configuring server settings.

Before You Begin

To complete this chapter, you must have

• Installed Microsoft Windows 2000 Server on a computer (Server01)

  See chapter 8, "Installing Microsoft Windows 2000" for more details.

• Knowledge about the difference between a workgroup and a domain
• Knowledge about the difference between a domain controller and a member server
• Experience using the Microsoft Management Console (MMC)