joe wrote: > O'Reilly's Active Directory book is a good primer. That is the first > AD book I read (it was first edition back then though). Once you have > the basics down I would recommend moving into Active Directory > Cookbook also by O'Reilly and Inside Active Directory, 2e from > Addison-Wesley; both excellent books with very different goals. The > cookbook gives you "recipes" for getting common tasks done. Inside AD > is a great book for understanding a lot of the details. It is > probably the only book I have tech reviewed where I was often > saying... "Wow, I didn't know that" followed quickly by, "How did > Mika and Sakari get this info?". > It was my impression that AD is MS's version of a ldap dir sevice with certain properitary schema to allow for MS specific objects/attributes and Kerberos realms in place of domains to allow for transisitve trusts and mutal auth with support for external domain trusts and ntlm only for backwards compatibilty. And aside from the schema additions and a different replication topolgy and the way the dir is sliced and diced(config namming context,domain namming context,etc), its a true ldap server no different from NDS or Open-LDAP. Esp since win2k3 and the InterOrgPerson. Am I totally off base here? Its def not a gui for ldap but just a ldap server with those changes/mods
> Active Directory is the implementation of the Windows Domain > environment. It incorporates Kerberos and LDAP and other technologies > to provide domain and directory services. > > I guess I can see where people could come to the same conclusion that > AD is simply a GUI, but it is much more than that and in fact, you > don't even have to use GUI tools to work on it, though for many it is > much easier to do so. I spend most of my AD time not in the GUI, > though others spend all of their AD time in the GUI. Depends on the > person and what they have to accomplish and what tools they have in > their toolbox to accomplish it. > > joe > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Mann > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:41 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and LDAP > > I don't understand LDAP and Active Directory as much as I should. > So, I've ordered 2 LDAP books (O'Reilly and another) to learn. > I'm curious as to how much LDAP and Active Directory have in common. > Is AD just a GUI for LDAP? > Perhaps there is a book everyone here recommends or will my LDAP books > hopefully cover enough so I could be able to feel my way around Active > Directory good enough? > > Doing a search with the word 'book' gives a ton of irrelvent searches > in the archives. > I saw one book but it's out of print. > > Kenny Mann > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
