In this lesson, I'll make a quick overview of Active Directory administration tools.
I'll try to explain briefly the different Active Directory management tools and their usage and history.
Managing Active Directory environment is one of the most common tasks.
Nat Professional performs.
You typically manage your domain controllers remotely, although you can sign into the computer either
directly or by using remote desktop.
The primary tool you will use is the Active Directory Administrative Center.
It provides a graphical user interface or gooey that is Windows PowerShell based.
This enhanced interface allows you to perform Active Directory object management by using task oriented
navigation, and it replaces the functionality of Active Directory users and computers tasks that you
can perform by using the Active Directory.
Administrative Center include the following You can create and manage user computer and group accounts.
You can create and manage organizational units you can connect to and manage multiple demands within
a single instance of Active Directory Administrative Center.
You can search and filter Active Directory data by building queries.
You can create and manage fine grained password policies.
You can recover objects from this Active Directory, recycle bin, and you can manage objects that the
Dynamic Access Control feature requires.
All these tasks you can perform with Active Directory Administrative Center.
We'll have a brief demonstration in the next lesson where we will take a look at how you can perform
simple tasks within this tool.
It's very handy and robust.
Please remember that you can install the Active Directory Administrative Center only on servers running
Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, or on client computers running Windows seven or later.
Nevertheless, there are other management tools that you will use to perform Active Directory Administration,
which include Active Directory user assigned computers, which is a microsoft management console or
MSI snapping that manages most common resources, including users, groups and computers.
Although many administrators are familiar with this snooping and they've been using it all the time
now the Active Directory Administrative Center replaces it and provides more capabilities, Active Directory
sites and services.
This EMC snipping manages replication, network topology and related services.
Another tool is Active Directory domains and trusts.
This MMS snipping configures and maintains trust relationships at the domain and forest functional levels
and to more left active directory schema snipping this MMS snipping examines and modifies the definitions
of Active Directory attributes and object classes.
As you might remember from previous lesson, where we've examined this snapping, you typically do not
view or change it very often.
Therefore, by default, as you remember, the Active Directory schema snapping is not fully installed.
You have to perform several extra steps to get to this snap in.
If you don't remember, please refer to my lesson on Active Directory schema.
And the last but not least tool you'll use to manage Active Directory is Active Directory module for
Windows PowerShell.
This module for Windows PowerShell supports Active Directory administration and it is one of the most
important management components.
Server manager and the Active Directory Administration Center are Windows PowerShell based and use command
led to perform their tasks.
Command lets is the name for PowerShell commands and during this course will be using PowerShell command
lets very often.
To perform this or that task.