Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Final Considerations for Planning and Deployment

If you are doing an upgrade or migration to Windows Server 2003, you should read Chapter 7, before you finalize plans and deploy the operating system. If you are doing a new installation—perhaps, for a new business or a new location of an existing one—you have a substantial amount of additional planning to do. This extends well beyond your Windows Server 2003 systems to additional computers (clients, for a start), devices, services, applications, and so on.

The details of such a project are far beyond the scope of this book; indeed, entire books have been written on the topic. If you have to implement a network from the ground up, you might want to pick one up—the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment ...