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Chapter 5
Administering Active Directory Directory Services
About This Chapter
The Active Directory directory services in Microsoft Windows 2000
are composed of objects that represent network resources, such as
users, computers, and printers. You use a directory service to uniquely identify objects,
organize these objects into organizational units (OUs), and manage the
access to these resources.
After you create the structure of Active Directory directory
services, you must populate it with network objects. Although user and
computer accounts are basically the same in Windows 2000 as they were in Microsoft Windows NT
4.0, the procedures for creating these accounts and the interface that
you use to create them are new in Windows 2000.
Before You Begin
To complete this chapter
- You must have a computer that meets or exceeds the minimum
hardware requirements listed in "Getting Started."
- You must have installed Windows 2000 Advanced on a computer
meeting the specifications listed in the preceding bullet. The computer
should be installed as a domain controller in a domain and TCP/IP
should be the only installed protocol.
- Your computer should be using a static IP address.
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