Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion
by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
Planning Multiple Domains
When your organization is complex enough, or simply large enough, that you know you’re going to have to create multiple domains, spend the extra time up front planning exactly how to implement them. Time spent on the front end will be paid back later 10 times over.
Draw your planned domain structure and compare it to your planned (or existing) namespace. Decide what simply must be a domain and what can comfortably be an OU. Identify which servers are to be your domain controllers. Keep in mind that the concepts of PDC and BDC from Windows NT are gone. All servers within a domain are of equal weight and importance. Changes made to any domain controller are propagated to all other controllers within the domain. If simultaneous ...
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