August 01, 2000 02:11 PM

Planning for Active Directory

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You can find no end of articles and white papers and even books emphasizing the importance of proper planning before implementing Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD) in your infrastructure. Indeed, if you think AD is just an incremental change from the way you do things in your existing Windows NT 4.0 domain environment, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. A directory service such as AD significantly in...

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Yes, it's a very powerfull tool. We use AD in an environment where we distribute software, printer drivers and so on. It's easy to use, but you have to plan things carefully.

Hans Koppens 1/17/2002 5:46:09 AM

Fully agree. Now it looks like AD is only suitable for large networks. We HAVE to use AD because we are implementing Exchange 2000 in a 50 user network.

Ton 3/13/2001 3:30:54 AM

I see a lot of info on how to plan for AD for large networks. But not a lot of resources for small networks. I would like to see an article on how to plan AD for small business.

George Lara 12/21/2000 10:33:17 AM

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