Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Summary

This chapter provided an overview of the most common Windows Server 2003 Active Directory objects and procedures for administering Active Directory objects. A great deal of your administrative effort will be spent administering these objects. In particular, you will be administering group and user accounts as employees join and leave your company or as you create new groups to secure network resources. One of the complications that you may have to work with is that you can have three different objects that represent individual users: user objects, inetOrgPerson objects, and contact objects. As well, you have two different types of groups and three different scopes that you may need to work with. You will also spend your time administering ...