Scenario: The Fabrikam Corporation

The Fabrikam company upgraded their domain from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. During the installation, Joe Worden, the network administrator, was prompted to provide a domain DNS name. Joe typed "fabrikam.com." The existing users, groups, and computers are migrated to Active Directory into the new domain: fabrikam.com.

The following topics provide the additional steps that can be performed in this scenario:

• Connecting to Active Directory
• Binding to Active Directory Objects
• Creating an Organizational Unit
• Moving Existing Users to the Organizational Unit
• Creating New Users in the Organizational Unit
• Adding Users to a Group
• Creating a New Group
• Enumerating Objects
• Searching for Objects
• Reorganization
• Joining Heterogeneous Data
• Creating and Executing a View
• Creating a Heterogeneous Join between SQL Server and Active Directory