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Configuring Windows 2000 without Active Directory

  • 1st Edition - September 4, 2001
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Syngress
  • Language: English

Eliminate the hassles of Active Directory - install Windows 2000 without it! Windows 2000 is undoubtedly a great product. In one year after its release, Microsoft have sold have… Read more

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Description

Eliminate the hassles of Active Directory - install Windows 2000 without it!

Windows 2000 is undoubtedly a great product. In one year after its release, Microsoft have sold have sold 10 million licenses. System administrators are praising its impressive abilities to coordinate Internet, intranet, extranets, and management applications creating a complete technical infrastructure. However, there has been a noticeable amount of organizations that are avoiding one of the most talked about features of Windows 2000 - Active Directory. The industry buzz is that Active Directory (although a great product) is a burden to implement and install and is not compatible with non Windows products like Solaris, NetWare and Linux.

Configuring Windows 2000 WITHOUT Active Directory is a complete guide to installation and configuration of Windows 2000 (without Active Directory) for system administrators and network consultants. This book details not only the new features and functions of Windows 2000 but also how to integrate several features with existing Windows NT4 domains. The book does not cover the Active Directory function of Windows 2000.

Key features

  • There is nothing like this book available, yet every Windows 2000 mail list, magazine and online forum shouts for his sort of coverage!

Readership

System administrators, network consultants and other intermediate to advanced system engineers who are responsible for installing, configuring, deploying and troubleshooting server-based hosting of Windows 2000 - and are doing so without Active Directory

Table of contents


Foreword

Chapter 1 Why Not Active Directory?

Introduction

Why Use Windows 2000 without

Active Directory?

The Purpose of This Book

Who Should Read This Book

What This Book Will Cover

What This Book Won’t Cover

Active Directory Integration

Migrating Networks

Fractional Networks

External Networks

Walkthrough: Managing User Accounts and Securing the Local Administrator Account

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 2 Workstations

Introduction

Using Local Group Policy

Group Policy Objects

Locating Local Group Policy

Configuring Local Group Policy

Useful Group Policy Objects

Deploying Local Group Policy Objects

Security Configuration Using Templates

Security Templates

Viewing and Modifying Templates

Security Configuration and Analysis

Deploying Security Templates Automatically with Secedit

Improvements in System Reliability

Device Driver Signing

Windows File Protection and System File Checker

Service Pack Application

Improvements in Usability

Desktop Changes 108

Hardware Support

Wizards and Help

Walkthrough: Configuring Local Group Policy

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 3 Laptops

Introduction

Integrating Mobile Computing with the Corporate Network

Switching between Working Environments

Securing Data Outside the Company Environment

Encrypting Folders and Files

Remote Access Security

Mobile Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Safe Mode and the Recovery Console

Task Scheduler

Task Manager

Walkthrough: Using Offline Files

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 4 File and Print Services

Introduction

Sharing Data: Storing and Retrieving

Distributed File System (DFS)

Volume Mount Points

Indexing Service

Sharing Printers: Installing and Managing

Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor

IP Printing

Better Monitoring

User Options

Managing Servers

Disk Management

Data Management

Monitoring

Walkthrough: Setting an Audit Policy

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 5 Terminal Services

Introduction

Why Use Windows 2000 Terminal Services?

Fast Connections Over Low Bandwidths

Remote Administration

Tighter Security

Shadowing Users

Seamless Integration Between PC and Server

Preinstallation Considerations

Licensing

Upgrading from

Unattended Installations

Application Suitability

Capacity and Scaling

Limitations

Configuring and Managing Windows 2000 Terminal Services

Configuring Clients to Use Terminal Services

Terminal Services Client

Terminal Services Advanced Client

Walkthrough: Remotely Administering a Windows 2000 Server With Terminal Services

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 6 Networking Services

Introduction

Name Resolution with DNS

Do You Need to Run DNS?

Advantages of Microsoft’s Windows 2000 DNS

Integrating Microsoft DNS and UNIX DNS

DHCP for Central Configuration and Control of Addresses

TCP/IP Configuration Options

Superscopes

Name Resolution with WINS

Improved WINS Manager

Data Integrity 381

High Performance

High Availability with Network Load Balancing (NLB)

Network Load Balancing Components

Addresses and Priorities

Configuring Network Load Balancing

Monitoring and Administering Network Load Balancing

Walkthrough: Configuring DNS Primary and Secondary Zones

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 7 Internet Services

Introduction

Installing IIS5

Improvements in Reliability

Application Protection

IISreset

Backup/Restore Configuration

FTP Restart

Improvements in Administration and Management

Wizards and Tools

Improved Logging for Process Accounting

Improved Remote Administration

Web Site Operators

Improvements in Security

Windows Integrated

Digest

Fortezza

Improvements in Performance

HTTP Compression

ASP Improvements

Bandwidth Throttling

Process Throttling

Socket Pooling

Document Collaboration with WebDAV

Using WebDAV

Certificate Services

Certificate Authorities and Roles

Installing and Configuring a Standalone CA

Server Certificates

How Users Request and Manage Certificates

Using Secure Communication (SSL) on the Web Server

Walkthrough: Configuring Multiple Web Sites on a Single Web Server

Summary

Solutions Fast Track

Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 8 Secure Communication

Introduction

IPSec Planning—Working Out What You Want to Secure and How

Password Based

Certificate Based

IP Security Utilities—For Configuring and Monitoring Secure Communication

Using IP Security Policies on Local Machines

Using IP Security Monitor

Using the IPSec Policy Agent Service

Using TCP/IP

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 4, 2001
  • Language: English

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