Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Chapter 13. Developing an Administration Strategy

Developing an administration strategy is a direct product of the business requirement analysis created when putting together your Active Directory and Windows 2000 design process. The Active Directory design and the administrative strategy are closely related and possibly an iterative process.

Moving to Active Directory and Windows 2000 typically includes an effort to provide a centralized administration strategy. Does this mean that a central staff administrates and controls the entire Windows 2000 and Active Directory? This is not necessarily so. Moving to a centralized administration strategy includes defining a series of roles and responsibilities that include a variety of implementations. ...