Points to be Remembered while
planning and deploying Active Directory Environment:
1. Before creating a new forest you should ensure that the Domain Name System (DNS) is planned in detail.
2. To create a forest design, you need to first identify the business requirements that it must meet.
3. Once you’ve identified business requirements and the needed number of forests, proceed with planning your domain design or model.
4. Once you’ve planned the required AD structure, you may begin implementing it. And creating a new forest involves creating its first or root domain.
5. There are 3 ways to setup or install your AD Infrastructure.
a) Using the Windows Interface.
b) Using unattended installation parameters at the command line.
c) Using an answer file.
The easiest way to prepare and setup AD is by using Windows Interface as you can see in my earlier posts.
6. Assign a static IP address to your Windows Server 2008 server.
7. Use a Wizard to add the AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) role to the server.
8. Use a Wizard to promote Server to a domain controller by typing dcpromo command in run.
9. Choose Functional levels of forest and domains carefully, If you have set the level to Windows Server 2003 or earlier version, you can raise this level to Windows Server 2008 or a later versions but If you select Windows Server 2008/R2 then you cannot go back and pick earlier versions.
10. After you’ve created a forest, you can add additional domains in it and then you can create trust relationships between the domains to access resources.
11. You can also create forest trust between domains of different forests to be able to access the resources between two or more organizations sharing business.
12. You should keep functional levels consistent between domains and forests. For example, if all your domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008/R2, you should set the forest to the same functional level.
1. Before creating a new forest you should ensure that the Domain Name System (DNS) is planned in detail.
2. To create a forest design, you need to first identify the business requirements that it must meet.
3. Once you’ve identified business requirements and the needed number of forests, proceed with planning your domain design or model.
4. Once you’ve planned the required AD structure, you may begin implementing it. And creating a new forest involves creating its first or root domain.
5. There are 3 ways to setup or install your AD Infrastructure.
a) Using the Windows Interface.
b) Using unattended installation parameters at the command line.
c) Using an answer file.
The easiest way to prepare and setup AD is by using Windows Interface as you can see in my earlier posts.
6. Assign a static IP address to your Windows Server 2008 server.
7. Use a Wizard to add the AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) role to the server.
8. Use a Wizard to promote Server to a domain controller by typing dcpromo command in run.
9. Choose Functional levels of forest and domains carefully, If you have set the level to Windows Server 2003 or earlier version, you can raise this level to Windows Server 2008 or a later versions but If you select Windows Server 2008/R2 then you cannot go back and pick earlier versions.
10. After you’ve created a forest, you can add additional domains in it and then you can create trust relationships between the domains to access resources.
11. You can also create forest trust between domains of different forests to be able to access the resources between two or more organizations sharing business.
12. You should keep functional levels consistent between domains and forests. For example, if all your domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008/R2, you should set the forest to the same functional level.
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