Chapter 14. Piloting Your Directory Service

  • A Piloting Road Map

  • Piloting Your Directory Service Checklist

  • Looking Ahead

One of the most important milestones in your directory's life cycle is achieved when you pilot the service. Until this point your design has existed only in documents, on whiteboards, and in your head. During the pilot stage, you move from paper to programs, from design to deployment, and from theory to practice. You get your first look at how well your design works in something approaching a real environment. You begin to see how well the software performs, how smoothly your data maintenance procedures work, and how receptive the users of your directory are to the service. Then you modify your design according to feedback from ...

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