Noobie needs help PLEASE read

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r3neg@de

I have an interview on Tue for a position as a Microsoft server
engineer/ user support position. The office has about 300 employees. WAN
is medium size for a manufacturing facility (they make scanners.) They
run SAP. I experience in AS/400, unix, and as WinXP desktop and NT/server
administration. I have installed and configured NT server w/ primary and
secondary domain controllers to support Cognos.

BUT, this company relies heavilly on active directory which I have no
experience in. I need to impress on them that I am capable of grasping
the concepts of active directory and have transferable skill which can be
easily migrated to support their infrastructure.

To the people who implement and support active driectory on a daily basis
I ask:

1) What encompases your daily routine, what occupies your time.

2) If you had to educate yourself from scratch regarding active directory,
what areas would you focus on first. ( to be most effective from the start.)

3) Realistically speaking, what areas of active directory are actually
utilized by most installations, and which are thought of as fluff/
unnesesary.

Getting this job is very important to me and I would greatly appreciate
any assistance!

Thanks,
~r
 
By far, keeping up with user accounts -- including maintaining scripts to
create and remove them and gather various kinds of information about them --
is the main chore.

I'd start with the books by Mark Minasi about Windows 2000 and 2003 Server.
Microsoft publishes some Administrator's Companion books that are about as
big, but less informative, but might be faster reading.
 
Thanks, I'll grab a copy quick.

Do you think supporting an existing AD environment is something a person
could jump into and support effectively? Or would it take 3 months to
become of benefit to en employer.

~r
 
r3neg@de said:
Thanks, I'll grab a copy quick.

Do you think supporting an existing AD environment is something a person
could jump into and support effectively? Or would it take 3 months to
become of benefit to en employer.
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Hard to say. A couple of years ago everybody was jumping in fresh. Today
you have some competition from people with more experience. But it all
depends on what they mean by support.
 
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