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Active Directory Disaster Recovery

You're reading from Active Directory Disaster Recovery

Product type Book

Published in Jun 2008

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781847193278

Pages 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Florian Rommel

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Active Directory Disaster Recovery

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. Preface

1. An Overview of Active Directory Disaster Recovery

2. Active Directory Design Principles

3. Design and Implement a Disaster Recovery Plan for Your Organization

4. Strengthening AD to Increase Resilience

5. Active Directory Failure On a Single Domain Controller

6. Recovery of a Single Failed Domain Controller

7. Recovery of Lost or Deleted Users and Objects

8. Complete Active Directory Failure

9. Site AD Infrastructure Failure (Hardware)

10. Common Recovery Tools Explained

Sample Business Continuity Plan

Bibliography

Description of the Service

Active Directory provides the back-end mechanisms to authenticate users and services throughout the nailcorp.com domain. With this authentication determines what rights a user has within the corporate environment.

The Active Directory backend runs on dedicated servers based on Windows 2003 R2 x64 (64-bit) Edition with Service Pack 2 installed. The following hardware specifications are the standard to use in the corporate DC environment:

Component	Amount	Description
Processor(s)	2 (dual core)	64-bit x86 based dual-core processors
Memory	4GB	Amount of RAM
Network Interfaces	2, in teaming mode	Amount of network cards present and active
Storage	2x76GB Raid 1	Amount and configuration of the System Disks
Power	2, redundant	Hot-pluggable, redundant power supplies

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Authors (1)

Florian Rommel

Florian was born and raised in his native Germany until the age of 15 when he moved with this family to Central America and then the US. He has worked in the IT industry for more then 14 years and has gained a wealth of experience in many different IT environments. He also has a personal interest in Information Security. His certifications include CISSP, SANS GIAC, MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, and several others. Together with his extensive experience, he is a qualified expert in the area of Information Security. After writing several Disaster Recovery guides for Active Directory environments he now brings you this unique publication, which he hopes will become a key title in the collection of many Windows Server Administrators and specialists. Florian lives with his wife and daughter in Finland where he also works as an IT Manager in a global company.  

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