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Structural Planning for Branch Office Environments

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Description: 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.