TABLE OF CONTENTS Design the Active Directory infrastructure to meet business and technical requirements.
Design the envisioned administration model.
Create the conceptual design of the Active Directory forest structure.
Create the conceptual design of the Active Directory domain structure.
Design the Active Directory replication strategy.
Create the conceptual design of the organizational unit (OU) structure.
Once the environment has been assessed and fully documented, the actual Active Directory designs can now be developed. You should by now have sufficient data relating to your organization to start putting together designs that are appropriate for the organization and meet any requirements to which you must adhere.
During the initial stages of an Active Directory services infrastructure design phase, one should identify the administrative model that will be implemented. This can only be done when the current model has been assessed, the service and data administrators have been identified, and those sections of the organization requiring isolation and/or autonomy have been identified. These factors, together, will determine the forest and domain design(s).
This chapter will help you to understand those factors, what they are, and how they affect the designs. You will appreciate how isolation and autonomy issues (due to political and/or legal reasons) will affect the number of as well as the hierarchy within each forest. The chapter discusses the different approaches that can be taken to "carve up" the forest, based on geography, function, politics, and law. The structure and naming of the namespace(s) will be discussed as will...
