Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Chapter 5. Designing the Active Directory Structure

Deploying the Active Directory directory service in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 requires a great deal of planning and design. Active Directory can be deployed in any size organization, including large multinational corporations with hundreds of thousands of users and locations around the world. Creating an Active Directory design for a corporation of such a size requires a great deal of effort. However, even much smaller companies benefit greatly from time spent on the initial design.

This chapter provides an overview of the planning process that you must go through before you deploy Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. For the most part, this chapter assumes that you are working with a large ...