This chapter deploys an Active Directory infrastructure. Working from the deployment plan blueprint described in this chapter, you will be able to identify and modify the elements of the deployment plan that will suite your configuration. You can make changes as you need, be it a solution for a small network or a WAN connecting multiple domain controllers and an extensive Active Directory tree. | Active Directory Installation and Deployment his chapter deploys an Active Directory infrastructure. Working from the deployment plan blueprint described in this chapter you will be able to identify and modify the elements of the deployment plan that will suite your configuration. You can make changes as you need be it a solution for a small network or a WAN connecting multiple domain controllers and an extensive Active Directory tree. Getting Ready to Deploy This chapter takes you through the actual installation of the domain controllers for an Active Directory domain. We will be using our fictitious city Millennium City MCITY as the demo. So far we have put several structures into place according to the blueprint we will discuss next. You may take this blueprint and deployment plan and use it as a template for your own project expanding or cutting and pasting to and from it as you need or just use the examples to establish your own strategy. The text in this chapter is abridged and a more detailed plan is available in PDF format on the accompanying CD. If the plan appears to be a real-life example that s because it is. This Windows 2000 network and namespace have actually been deployed. What we espouse here is not the gospel on Active Directory deployment by any means. It works for our environment situation and the diversity of our demo organization. Smaller companies may find it too expensive to implement some of our suggestions others may garner some deep insight. Our purpose is to show a rich implementation. In This Chapter Presentation of the Deployment Plan Rollout of the Domain Controllers Planning for Replication Traffic Creating Organizational Units 292 Part III Active Directory Services Note While Millennium City is a fictitious city modeled on the organizational chart of a real . city the following deployment plan was executed and actual domain controllers were set up across a simulated WAN in a test environment. We also upgraded a large Windows NT .
