Title: Lesson 17: Objectives and Overview
Course: RITA MC - ITNW 1354 > Section: Lesson 17: Maintaining Active Directory

Lesson 17: Maintaining Active Directory

Lesson Objectives:

The following objectives will be covered in this lesson:

Back up Active Directory and SYSVOL; manage Active Directory offline; optimize an Active Directory database; clean up metadata; configure Active Directory snapshots; perform object- and container-level recovery; perform Active Directory restore; configure and restore objects by using the Active Directory Recycle Bin.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this lesson the student will be able to do the following:

- Use the csvde and ldifde utilities
- Discuss the actual files on disk that make up Active Directory
- Explain the composition and value of the system state files
- Discuss the contents of the SYSVOL directory
- Back up Active Directory
- Restore Active Directory
- Explain the differences between Active Directory restore types
- Perform a snapshot of Active Directory
- Perform object- and container-level recovery operations
- Optimize the Active Directory database
- Clean orphaned metadata from Active Directory