Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Assessing Your Environment

Now that you have spent time considering the scope of Active Directory and all the areas of the organization that it affects, the next step is to assess your organization's computing environment. Next you will look at the areas of IS that the Active Directory design affects or is affected by.

Network Assessment

Active Directory is a distributed service, meaning that few functions are provided by only one DC. Most Active Directory services are provided by most, if not all, the DCs. The nature of this type of service is that clients need to communicate with DCs for Active Directory services, and DCs need to communicate with other DCs for changes to Active Directory database or environment. Therefore, the network ...