TABLE OF CONTENTS Analyze the impact of Active Directory on the existing technical environment.
Analyze hardware and software requirements.
Analyze interoperability requirements.
Analyze current level of service within an existing technical environment.
Analyze current network administration model.
Analyze network requirements.
Analyze DNS for Active Directory directory service implementation.
Analyze the current DNS infrastructure.
Analyze the current namespace.
Analyze existing network operating system implementation.
Identify the existing domain model.
Identify the number and location of domain controllers on the network.
Identify the configuration details of all servers on the network. Server types might include primary domain controllers, backup domain controllers, file servers, print servers, and Web servers.
Identify network topology and performance levels.
Identify constraints in the current network infrastructure.
Interpret current baseline performance requirements for each major subsystem.
Analyze the impact of the infrastructure design on the existing technical environments.
Analyze hardware and software requirerments.
Analyze interoperability requirements.
Analyze current level of service within the existing technical environment.
Analyze network requirements.
Before the design of any system implementation may commence, first one must assess the environment into which that system is to be deployed. This argument holds true especially for Active Directory (AD). Active Directory has the potential to affect every facet of your IT infrastructure and every team involved with IT, even in the largest of enterprises. Active Directory deployments can impact areas including the physical network topology, network bandwidth and resilience, IP addressing, name resolution hierarchies, administrative procedures, administrative models, and security policies, to name but...
