The Need for Planning

Whether you are designing a new network or making changes to an existing one, planning is the tedious but essential component. Prior to any implementation work, planning must be completed. Few enjoy and many actively dislike this task, but it’s important to understand that every minute and every hour spent planning will later repay you (or your heirs and assigns) a hundredfold.

Sometimes it’s difficult to appreciate the benefits of careful planning—until you’ve had the misfortune of having to support a poorly considered installation. Windows Server 2003 is particularly unforgiving of an offhand approach to planning. As has been mentioned before, you can add Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional to a Windows NT ...

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