Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Insider Solutions

Chapter 10. Advanced Active Directory Design

In this Chapter

• Implementations Small and Large

• Configuring and Reconfiguring Domains and Organizational Units

• Sites and the New Knowledge Consistency Checker

• Using Cross-Forest Trusts Effectively

• Interforest Synchronization

• Active Directory Migration Tool

• BEST PRACTICES

• Using Microsoft Metadirectory Services Effectively

• Domain Controller Placement

• Global Catalog Placement

• Taking Advantage of Replication Improvements

• Active Directory Functional Levels

Implementing Active Directory is a fairly straightforward task. Just install Windows 2003, tell the Configure Your Computer Wizard that you want to be a domain controller and vòila! You have Active Directory. Although technically this is true, if administrators were ...