Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Organizing and Evolving the Active Directory Team

As you embark on building the Active Directory team to design, implement, deploy, and eventually leverage your investment in Active Directory, it is important to recognize the evolution that takes place within the team and the team's relationship with the organization.

In the beginning, Active Directory design started with some fact finding about the requirements for the directory and about the types of directories currently existing in the organization. This activity starts the first phase of developing the directory. Phase 1 is called "Understanding, Labbing, and Prototyping." Phase 1 is the learning phase in which the team works together to understand Active Directory and to determine ...