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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Lilianstrom
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:19 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...
I lost track of which book Joe was writing about below. Can someone
refresh my memory?
As for Joe writing a book about how he does things - what would be cool.
al
Rich Milburn wrote:
Joe I have one question for you on this book before mine arrives... am
I going to read it, and then start bugging you again about compiling a
book of AD and server best practices based off of all the good novels
you have posted on this list??
:)
In fact... come to think of it... maybe there is still an unwritten
book... one that takes topics that tend to come up on this list and
deals with each on a discussion basis. It might be more useful for
consultants and architects though, but still... two examples:
1) empty root domain issue - pros and cons
2) remotely managing DCs - joe you once had a long spiel on how you
used to manage all those DCs remotely, and rather than give someone DA
rights to work on it, you'd demote it, then rebuild it from bare
metal. A decent percentage of us probably knows how to do these
things remotely.
But what if someone wanted to set something like this up, and it was a
new concept to them. Is there a guide out there anywhere that could
show how to do it? From setting up the imaging software, to
configuring a DC image to come up without someone clicking any buttons
locally, etc?
A book like that would probably want a lot of input from a lot of
people, because the answers to a lot of best practices questions are
"it depends". But I bet there's a need...
Rich
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:15 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...
Yeah there is a chapter on migration from 2K to K3 as well as a small
chapter on upgrading to K3R2.
The big wins in this version of the book if anyone asks me though are
1. A real live chapter on ADAM. First in existence that I am aware of.
I like this chapter, if anyone reads it and has issues with it, please
email me directly. I really like ADAM, I want to make sure my info is
all correct and that it fits people's experiences with it. Heck I
wouldn't mind just hearing about people's experiences so if I write
anything else concerning ADAM, I can comment on it so others may not
hit the same issues/pitfalls.
2. Significant updates to the Schema Chapters.
3. Significant updates to the Security Chapters.
4. A chapter on basic Exchange (AD-Related) tasks and how to script
them.
5. The Site Topology and Replication chapter got a pretty serious
update as well.
6. A lot of the scripts were reworked.
Do not buy the book for the VB.NET and Directory Services chapter. I
am not a NET person, I fully admit it, it is pretty much the same as
it was in 2E.
If you want a book in that realm, you want the book Joe Kaplan has
been working on, I was a technical reviewer for that book and it looks
like it is going to be pretty good.
The TR folks can comment if they like on what they liked about it or
anything they think that is in it that makes it worthwhile. I had,
what I considered unusual, a two way street with feedback with the
TRs. They sent me their comments, I sent back responses for many of
the comments and asked for more detail or asked questions or what not
as needed. I know most everything I have ever TR'ed has been sort of a
black hole where I don't know if the feedback is being used or not
which I never liked. At least one reviewer mentioned to me that the
feedback was unusual and well accepted.
I don't expect this to be the be all end all book on AD but I did try
to make it so I would be happy my name was on it which if anyone knows
me is not a low achievement bar, I am a bit picky. But at the same
time, I know I didn't get everything perfect, there wasn't time for
perfect, it had to be released this decade. It isn't a book that is in
my voice/tone; it is a refresh so I attempted to follow the voice/tone
that was there as much as possible as it wasn't mine to change. Some
people will not like that and some people are probably thankful for
it. :o)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garyphold
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:02 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...
We're migrating our AD from W2K to W2K3 in the next month. And I want
to be able to find out a little about the AD migration beforehand (our
consultant is doing it - I'm not ready to jump into deep water on
something like this).
Will the 3rd edition cover W2K and getting from there to W2K3? And
we'll still be using W2K on a couple of servers, so I want to be able
to have documentation that will cover both.
Thanks.
Gary
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:39 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...
Reserved my copy. You should see if they'll do the Saturday Fedex home
delivery like when you reserve a copy of Harry Potter. ;)
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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