Praise for the First Edition Trust me on this one...if you"re an Active Directory engineer or architect this is the book you need. It"s the companion that"s going to help you keep your job if you"re up in the middle of the night trying to understand how something works or why it"s not working. It"s truly an amazing book." --Scott Rachui MCSE and Senior Active Directory Engineer author of MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 for Dummies"This is the best book on Windows 2000 that I have read and one of the best computer books I have ever read. The most unique quality is the excellent explanation of how to use scripting to maximize your results and minimize your effort. This book is especially well suited to the enterprise audience that has to deploy many servers (100+) and not just 1-10. If you have even a small bit of programming experience you will really appreciate the in-depth explanations of Windows 2000 under the covers." --Eric Chipko"Wow!! I love this book. I"d trade all my books covering Active Directory for this book in a second. The material is covered at a depth that I haven"t seen in any other book--and I"ve looked at most of them. The material is presented in a straightforward manner that doesn"t put you to sleep. An NT4 administrator could easily read this book and become an expert at Active Directory. I especially appreciated the chapter on Active Directory security." --Brian Arkills author of LDAP Directories ExplainedPraise for the Second Edition"If you are committed and really desire to know what makes Active Directory tick--and with it the backbone of the latest and greatest generation of Windows Network Operating Systems--then there is no better guide to get you there than this book. Inside Active Directory has no equal in the breadth depth and scope of its value to a technical practitioner." --Rick Kingslan Microsoft MVP Directory Services"Kouti and Seitsonen provide excellent coverage of topics a lot of people have difficulty understanding and setting up pr