The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you're likely to encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), ADAM, multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features. This best selling book provides solutions to over 300 problems commonly encountered when deploying, administering, and automating Active Directory to manage users in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The recipes -creating domains and trusts -renaming a domain controller -finding users whose passwords are about to expire -applying a security filter to group policy objects -checking for potential replication problems -restricting hosts from performing LDAP queries -viewing DNS server performance statistics