| This book is designed to cover all the objectives that Microsoft created for this exam, thereby helping you meet your certification goals by preparing you for Exam 70-294. It doesn’t offer end-to-end coverage of Active Directory in Windows Server 2003; rather, it helps you develop the specific core competencies that Microsoft says that administrators who support Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 will need to master. In a Windows Server 2003 network, the ability to install, support, and troubleshoot Active Directory is critical to the success of an administrator. As in Windows 2000, Active Directory is intimately integrated into Windows Server 2003, and you cannot have a domain structure without Active Directory. The exam touches on all the major components of Active Directory that are critical to a successful domain and forest implementation. Although volumes of information are available on the history, theory, and underlying applications, this book does not cover these portions of the services in detail. The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to these services in general, provide an in-depth look at the Windows Server 2003 implementations of Active Directory, and prepare you to take the exam. One additional area that is new to this exam is the emphasis on security. In keeping with the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiatives, Microsoft is putting much greater emphasis than in the past on the security facets of all of its Windows Server 2003 exams. |
