Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Clearly understand your roles and responsibilities in the enterprise network, and understand how the different components that make up the network communicate and rely on one another.

• Choose the appropriate administrative model (central, distributed, or mixed) for the organization based on required services and skill sets in each location.

• Always define the Active Directory sites to accurately reflect physical structure even if those locations don’t contain domain controllers.

• Always define all subnets in the Active Directory Sites and Services to ensure that all domain computers can be located to their closest Active Directory resources.

• Use site links to accurately ...