Introduction to Administering Active Directory

This guide explains how to administer Microsoft Active Directory. These activities are part of the operating phase of the information technology (IT) life cycle. If you are not familiar with this guide, review the following sections of this introduction.

When to Use This Guide

You should use this guide when:

•	You want to manage common Active Directory problems that are associated with misconfiguration.
•	You want to configure Active Directory to increase network availability.

This guide assumes a basic understanding of what Active Directory is, how it works, and why your organization uses it to access, manage, and secure shared resources across your network. You should also have a thorough understanding of how Active Directory is deployed and managed in your organization. This includes an understanding of the mechanism your organization uses to configure and manage Active Directory settings.

This guide can be used by organizations that have deployed Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). It includes information that is relevant to different roles within an IT organization, including IT operations management and administrators. It contains high-level information that is required to plan an Active Directory operations environment. This information provides management-level knowledge of Active Directory and the IT processes required to operate it.

In addition, this guide contains more detailed procedures that are designed for operators who have varied levels of expertise and experience. Although the procedures provide operator guidance from start to finish, operators must have a basic proficiency with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and snap-ins and know how to start administrative programs and access the command line. If operators are not familiar with Active Directory, it might be necessary for IT planners or IT managers to review the relevant operations in this guide and provide the operators with parameters or data that must be entered when the operation is performed.

How to Use this Guide

The operations areas are divided into the following types of content:

•	Objectives are high-level goals for managing, monitoring, optimizing, and securing Active Directory. Each objective consists of one or more high-level tasks that describe how the objective is accomplished.
•	Tasks are used to group related procedures and provide general guidance for achieving the goals of an objective.
•	Procedures provide step-by-step instructions for completing the task.

If you are an IT manager who will be delegating tasks to operators within your organization, you will want to:

•	Read through the objectives and tasks to determine how to delegate permissions and whether you need to install tools before operators perform the procedures for each task.
•	Before assigning tasks to individual operators, ensure that you have all the tools installed where operators can use them.
•	When necessary, create “tear sheets” for each task that operators perform within your organization. Cut and paste the task and its related procedures into a separate document and then either print these documents or store them online, depending on the preference of your organization.

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Configure and manage file systems.
Convert from one file system to another file system.

Disk Management, is a graphical tool for managing disks and volumes. It supports partitions, logical drives, new dynamic volumes, and remote disk management. To open Disk Management, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under Storage, click Disk Management.

Format command

In Windows 2000 the format command creates a new root directory and file system for the disk. It can also check for bad areas on the disk, and it can delete all data on the disk. For Windows 2000 to be able to use a new disk, you must first use this command to format the disk.

You must have Administrator rights to format a hard disk.
When you use the format command to format a hard disk, Windows 2000 displays a message of the following form before attempting to format the hard disk:

WARNING, ALL DATA ON non removable DISK
DRIVE x: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?_

format volume [/fs:file-system] [/v:label] [/q]

volume:
Specifies the mount point, volume name, or drive letter of the drive you want to format.

/fs:file-system
Specifies the file system to use, FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. Floppy disks can use only the FAT file system.

/v:label
Specifies the volume label.

/q
You can speed up the formatting process by using the /q switch. Use this switch only if there are no bad sectors on your hard disk.