Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Design and Implementation
A unique, scenario-based approach to selecting and implementing the best Active Directory design for your environment
 

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Chapter 2:
The Small Accountancy Firm
In this first scenario will be looking at the small consultancy firm “Savill Accountants Worldwide” which despite it’s name has a single office in the Texas town of Allen and despite years of attempts to dominate the U.S. accountancy scene now accepts it’s client base consists of largely overpaid computer consultants and British Food import firms frequented by the largely overpaid computer consultants. Fortunately there are plenty of both enabling the company to look at updating it’s current NT 4.0, Exchange 5.5 environment to a new 2003 based solution.

For any environment there are a number of core stages in the Active Directory implementation, the three D’s:

  • Discovery

  • Design

  • Deployment

The scope and processes carried out at each stage vary in their scale for each organization and through the rest of the book we’ll expand the processes with each scenario as they grow larger.

In many situations the deployment takes up most of the time however this should not be the case, if the discovery is complete and the design well thought out the deployment should be a relatively small portion of the project.

  • Chapter 2: The Small Accountancy Firm

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    • What Have We Here?
      • Domains and Their Controllers
      • Other Services
      • Sites
      • Policy Requirements
      • Administration
    • The Big Design
      • Migrate or In-Place?
      • What's in a Name?
      • Domain Requirements
      • Forest and Tree Requirements
      • Number of Domain Controllers, FSMO Role Placement, and Global Catalog Placement
      • Organizational Unit Requirements
        • Geography as a Basis
        • Business Area as a Basis
        • Object Type as a Basis
        • The Real World
    • The Other Services
      • DNS
      • WINS
      • DHCP
      • The Domain/Forest Mode
    • The Final Server Picture
      • The Clients
      • Do as I Say, Not as I Do (Policies)
      • Other Services
    • Summary
    BOOK DETAILS
      Paperback, 375 pages
    Released: January 2005
    ISBN: 1904811086
    Authors: John Savill
     
     

    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Introduction
    1: The Importance of a Domain
    2: The Small Accountancy Firm
    3: Step-By-Step Migration
    4: The Regional Legal Firm
    5: The Retail-Based Company
    6: The International Financial Company
    Index

     




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