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?".
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: [email protected] 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/
