tailieunhanh - Logical Domain Structure

By now, you are probably pretty psyched about Active Directory. And you probably thought we were nuts in the opening chapters when we urged you not to install Active Directory and to deploy standalone servers until you are at home with the new operating system. Now we are going to go overboard. We are going to tell you not to build your new domain until you have a) read this chapter, b) done psychoanalysis of your company, and c) designed your domain on a whiteboard or a math pad and come up with a blueprint. Why? Does Microsoft recommend this? The answer is: Well, sort of | Logical Domain Structure This chapter takes you into the realm of enterprise analysis which is new ground for most system administrators. Sanity Check By now you are probably pretty psyched about Active Directory. And you probably thought we were nuts in the opening chapters when we urged you not to install Active Directory and to deploy standalone servers until you are at home with the new operating system. Now we are going to go overboard. We are going to tell you not to build your new domain until you have a read this chapter b done psychoanalysis of your company and c designed your domain on a whiteboard or a math pad and come up with a blueprint. Why Does Microsoft recommend this The answer is Well sort of. Microsoft in both official documentation and in training is not firm enough in stressing that the root of a namespace cannot be renamed changed or deleted without first hacking down the forest and completely reinstalling the domain controller. And this will remain the situation until Microsoft or third parties ship some series Active Directory manipulation and administration tools. So before you start know this When you delete the root domain or the last domain on a domain tree from the server demotion you uninstall the namespace. If you screw up the namespace and decide after many hours of hard work that you started wrong you could end up losing those hours spent creating user and computer accounts and configuring domain controllers. And if you go into production you also take down several colleagues. We thus offer you a mini-guide to enterprise analysis in this chapter in the hope that when you get ready to break ground you don t slice your toes off in the process. In This Chapter Planning the Logical Domain Structure Partitioning the Domain Using Organizational Units to Create Domain Structure Creating the Design Blueprint 224 Part III Active Directory Services Keepers of the New Order These are exciting times for network administrators. We spoke at .