1.6. Choosing Server Roles
Once you've taken the time to identify the overall structure and design scheme of your enterprise, the next logical step is to determine the role that Active Directory can play in your design. In the old days, this wasn't quite as complex a process. With systems such as Windows NT, you simply had to choose a primary domain controller (PDC), and possibly a backup domain controller (BDC), and then go through the much more arduous task of administering the environment after designing it.
Now, however, solution architects and IT administrators have the problem of not just choosing domain controllers but choosing among several types of domain controllers, DNS settings, server roles, server features, scripting, and hundreds ...
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