Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Create documents that target a specific audience and meet a particular goal.

• Have documentation reviewed and approved by other stakeholders in the organization to ensure that it meets their needs as well, and to simply get input from another source. For technical procedures, the document also must be tested and walked through.

• Consolidate and centralize documentation for the organization.

• Document the company’s policies and procedures for securing and maintaining the Windows environment.

• Create well-thought-out and professional planning and design documentation to avoid costly mistakes in the implementation or migration process, such as buying too many server licenses ...