Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration or Active Directory

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration (Unleashed Series)

Author: Tammy Fox

This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex or challenging.

 

Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings together today’s best practices for the entire system lifecycle, from planning and deployment through maintenance and troubleshooting. Fox shows how to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness by automating day-to-day maintenance through scripting, deploying security updates via Red Hat Network, implementing central identity management services, and providing shared data with NFS and Samba.

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed contains extensive coverage of network and web services, from the Apache HTTP server and Sendmail email services to remote login with OpenSSH. Fox also describes Red Hat’s most valuable tools for monitoring and optimization and presents thorough coverage of security–including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

 

• Streamline deployment with Kickstart
• Find, install, update, remove, and verify software
• Detect, analyze, and manage hardware
• Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas
• Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems
• Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely
• Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery
• Script and schedule tasks to run automatically
• Provide unifiedidentity management services
• Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail
• Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications
• Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield
• Set up firewalls with iptables
• Enable the Linux Auditing System
• Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently

 

Tammy Fox served as technical leader of Red Hat’s documentation group, where she wrote and revised The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. She was founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, now an online publication reaching more than 800,000 system administrators and others interested in Linux and open source. She wrote Red Hat’s LogViewer tool and has written and contributed to several Red Hat configuration tools. Fox is also the founding leader of the Fedora Docs Project.

 

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Category: Linux/Networking

Covers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

 

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Active Directory

Author: Robbie Allen

When Microsoft introduced Windows 2000, the most important change was the inclusion of Active Directory. With many great benefits, it continues to be a huge headache for network and system administrators to design, implement and support. The first edition of this book, O'Reilly's best-selling "Windows 2000 Active Directory, eased their pain considerably. Now titled "Active Directory, 2nd Edition, this book provides system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers with a clear, detailed look at Active Directory for both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

The upgraded Active Directory that ships with Windows Server 2003 has over 100 new and enhanced features and once again, O'Reilly has the answers to puzzling questions. While Microsoft's documentation serves as an important reference, "Active Directory, 2nd Edition is a guide to help the curious (and weary) understand the big picture. In addition to the technical details for implementing Active Directory, several new and significantly enhanced chapters describe the numerous features that have been updated or added in Windows Server 2003 along with coverage of new programmatic interfaces that are available to manage it. After reading the book you will be familiar with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, and the Active Directory Schema, among many other topics.

Authors Robbie Allen and Alistair G. Lowe-Norris are experienced veterans with real-world experience. Robbie is a Senior Systems Architect in the Advanced Services Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He was instrumental in the deployment andautomation of Active Directory, DNS and DHCP at Cisco, and is now working on network automation tools. Alistair is an enterprise program manager for Microsoft U.K. and previously worked for Leicester University as the project manager and technical lead of the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows 2000.

"Active Directory, 2nd Edition will guide you through the maze of concepts, design issues and scripting options enabling you to get the most out of your deployment.

Table of Contents:

1	A brief introduction	3
2	Active directory fundamentals	15
3	Naming contexts and application partitions	37
4	Active directory schema	44
5	Site topology and replication	78
6	Active directory and DNS	101
7	Profiles and group policy primer	119
8	Designing the namespace	149
9	Creating a site topology	193
10	Designing organization-wide group policies	219
11	Active directory security : permissions and auditing	270
12	Designing and implementing schema extensions	307
13	Backup, recovery, and maintenance	323
14	Upgrading to Windows Server 2003	347
15	Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 R2	368
16	Migrating from Windows NT	376
17	Integrating Microsoft Exchange	386
18	Active directory application mode (ADAM)	408
19	Interoperability, integration, and future direction	451
20	Scripting with ADSI	469
21	IADs and the property cache	491
22	Using ADO for searching	520
23	Users and groups	545
24	Basic Exchange tasks	570
25	Shares and print queues	591
26	Permissions and auditing	616
27	Extending the schema and the active directory snap-ins	652
28	Using ADSI and ADO from ASP or VB	672
29	Scripting with WMI	713
30	Manipulating DNS	735
31	Getting started with VB.NET and System.Directory services	753