GETTING STARTED

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REFERENCES

These are some links useful for others wishing to reproduce the progress I have made joining the ASU Windows 2000 Active Directory. These links will open their targets in a new window.

Windows 2000 Documents
Source: ASU
You will find many useful documents here.

Outlook Public Folders
Source: ASU
You will find a lot of documentation in
\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Projects\Windows 2000
Unfortunately it is pretty old and poorly organized.

Pre-Creating the First Computer in the Domain
Source: Julene Cahoon
I had no success using the "netdom" command. As a UNIX guy I'm not scared of the command line but I just couldn't make it work. I found this extremely useful document by Julene Cahoon buried in the Outlook Public Folders. (\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Projects\Windows 2000\2000 Project History\Administration Delegation) It explains how you could can just pre-create a computer and join it to the domain without using "netdom". Thanks Julene!

Creating a Computer & Joining it to the Domain
Source: ASU
This is how I joined all of my computers to the TASURITE domain, even the very first one.

GPO Creation Procedure Using Loopback Processing
Source: ASU
You need to follow this procedure if you want a GPO to apply to everyone that logs into a computer.

274443 - HOW TO Dynamically Create Secure Redirected Folders By Using Folder Redirections
Source: Microsoft
If you want all users to have their "My Documents" folder (for example) automatically redirected to a server share you MUST follow these instructions to setup the sharing and NTFS permissions for that share if you want it to work.

Securing Windows 2000 Server
Source: Microsoft
Some "light" reading.

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