MCSE Exam 70-296: Planning, Implementing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000 Study Guide

| 7.1 | Manage an Active Directory forest and domain structure. |
| 7.1.1 | Manage trust relationships. |
| 7.1.2 | Manage schema modifications. |
| 7.1.3 | Add or remove a UPN suffix. |
| 7.2 | Restore Active Directory directory services. |
| 7.2.1 | Perform an authoritative restore operation. |
| 7.2.2 | Perform a nonauthoritative restore operation. |
To pass the 70-296 exam, you not only need to know how to plan and configure an Active Directory structure you also have to know how to manage it once it is in place. Unfortunately, Active Directory is not something that can be implemented and then walked away from. In your role as a networking professional, you will experience times when you must make some minor changes to your structure as well as some major changes.
There might come a time in your environment when you will add or remove domains from your Active Directory structure. Events such as company mergers, branch closures, and other business-oriented events can trigger a need to reconfigure your structure to accommodate change. In these types of events, you might need to add or remove trusts between domains, add OUs, or perform other administrative tasks that can have a huge impact on your structure. In this chapter, you will learn how to manage your Active Directory structure, including handling tools at your disposal for these management tasks.
Along with these changes to your Active Directory structure, there might come a time when you realize a change that you made to your structure was incorrect. Unfortunately,...