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Chapter 4: The Regional Legal Firm
In our Second scenario, we will be looking at the medium-sized firm "Savill & Savill", which has three offices spread around Texas (Dallas, Austin, and Houston) and an office in Mexico. Initial conversations with the company have informed us that they have multiple NY4 domains. Their goal is to consolidate the domains if possible and bring their infrastructure up to the latest versions so that no update is needed for another five years.

Once again as with our first scenario, the core stages remain the same:

• Discovery

• Design

• Deployment

We will build on the steps we performed in the first scenario, since the starting environment is more complex with multiple domains and multiple physical locations. Our design process will remain the same, however: one forest, one domain, one OU, and additional instances as needed.

• Chapter 4: The Regional Legal Firm

 
• What Have We Here?
• The Main Objects
• The Physical Structure
• Other Services
• DNS
• WINS
• DHCP
• The New Infrastructure Design
• New Domain Structure
• The Name
• Sites
• Domain Controller Placement
• Service Placement
• OU Design
• The Upgrade Path
• Performing the Upgrade
• Preparing the New Domain
• Raise Domain and Forest Level
• Create Subnets and Sites
• Create OU Structure
• Add Additional Domain Controllers in Sites as Required
• Move FSMO Roles and GC Assignment
• Ensure Policies (Group Policy) Configured
• Migrate the Resources
• Post Migration Tasks

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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