Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Use a migration methodology consisting of discovery, design, testing, and implementation phases to meet the needs of your organization.

• Fully understand the business and technical goals and objectives of the upgrade and the breadth and scope of benefits the implementation will provide before implementing a new application or upgrade.

• Create a scope of work detailing the Windows Server 2012 network functionality, data management, information access, and application hosting.

• Define high-level organizational goals.

• Define departmental goals.

• Determine which components and capabilities of the network are most important and how they contribute to or hinder the goals expressed ...

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