For each IS professional or administrator, Windows 2000 Active Directory Survival Guide provides both a high level of recognition and hands-on guide to successful transition to Windows 2000. Salient feature here is a thorough discussion about the proper way to model the organization uses Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD) in terms of domain, trees, forests, and organizational unit (OU). Each chapter includes "Best Practices" section with useful tips on planning and implementing your organization's Windows 2000 network and server infrastructure. After the planning phase, the book turned into a hands-on examples of Windows 2000 upgrades and administration, with many screenshots of the actual tools such as Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and Active Directory wizard. In all, with in-and-out tour of the Active Directory and solid guide to the nuts and bolts common administrative tasks, Windows 2000 Active Directory Survival Guide is an excellent resource Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: (AD) an overview and architecture, LDAP, NDS, X.500 standard Active Directory, domain and domain controller, the architecture of DNS, host name and name resolution, Dynamic DNS, trust relationships, namespaces, organizational units (OU), trees, forests, global catalog server, replication, and ACL security, Windows 2000 security, organizational model, the strategy of naming, replication, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and snap-ins, group policy, ADSI, and upgrade to Windows 2000.