Overview of Planning Active Directory for Branch Office Environments
This chapter presents the purpose and scope of this Active Directory Branch Office Planning Guide. The following chapters discuss the concepts and steps necessary to plan for a deployment of the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system and Windows 2000 Active Directory™ service in a branch office environment.
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Structural Planning for Branch Office Environments
This chapter of the Active Directory Branch Office Planning Guide outlines the planning considerations for deciding on the logical structure of your Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory® service structure, including whether to partition your forest and your domain, as well as how to plan your sites. This paper also discusses the placement of domain controllers, global catalog servers, Operations Master roles, DNS servers, and bridgehead servers. At the end of this paper, you should understand when and why to partition your forest and your domain and how to place the various servers in branches as opposed to hub sites.
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Planning Replication for Branch Office Environments
This chapter presents the basic elements of replication in the context of the two types of replication: Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Active Directory® service replication and File Replication service (FRS) system volume replication. It outlines the replication issues to be considered before setting up sites. After reviewing these considerations, you should be able to decide how and where to place hub sites, when and where to create connection objects, and where to place bridgehead servers.
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Planning the Hub Site for Branch Office Environments
This chapter outlines the steps necessary to create a hub or data center site, including building and maintaining the root and branch office domains. After completing these steps, you should be ready to plan the staging site at which the branch domain controllers will be created.
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Planning the Staging Site for Branch Office Environments
This chapter outlines the considerations for setting up a staging site prior to your branch office deployment. At the end of this chapter you should understand the best practices for installing and managing a staging site, the replication topology and connectivity requirements, and the related documentation that is required.
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Planning for Building and Deploying Branch Office Domain Controllers
This chapter presents the best practices, planning, and monitoring involved in the building of the domain controllers for the remote branches. Most importantly, this is where we provide warnings about steps that should not be performed and what the consequences would be. Quality assurance steps are provided to ensure a smooth deployment, including the necessity of having good documentation for future administration and maintenance.
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Building the Forest Root Domain and Central Hub Site
This chapter outlines the steps required to create and monitor the forest root domain for the branch office scenario. The central hub site will also be created for these services. After completing these steps, the forest root required to support the Microsoft® Active Directory® directory service for this scenario will be in place. Additionally, procedures for monitoring will have been established.
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Building the Branch Office Domain and Bridgehead Servers
This chapter outlines the steps required to create and monitor the domain controllers for the branch domain. The domain controllers created by using the procedures in this chapter will act as the bridgehead servers for your branch office domain controllers. In addition, procedures for monitoring will be established.
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Creating and Configuring the Staging Domain Controller
This chapter outlines the steps to install and configure the domain controller for the staging site. After completing these steps, you will have a domain controller in the staging site and be ready to begin the process of staging branch office domain controllers in the staging site.
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Staging a Branch Office Domain Controller
This chapter outlines the steps to create a staged domain controller for a branch office at the staging site. After completing these steps, you will have a staged branch office domain controller ready for the necessary pre-shipment configuration. The pre-configuration steps must be performed right before the domain controller will be shipped to its branch office; these are in the next chapter.
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