March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 42m
English
Many larger shops have, over the last few years, created very complex domain structures. For some, it was simply because of a lack of centralized planning. Windows NT, because of its trust management structure, encouraged companies to create trusts between domains to facilitate cross-domain permissions. The effect of this was that various groups in the company created domains and then joined together over a period of time without a larger plan. I have seen NT domain structures that looked like a football play gone bad. For others, this occurred because of scalability. Windows NT did not recommend domains with more than 40,000 objects. But Active Directory scales to millions of objects.
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