Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Design domains sparingly: Don’t necessarily set up multiple domains for different remote offices or sites.

• Turn on the Active Directory Recycle Bin after upgrading to Windows Server 2012 forest-functional level to take advantage of the ability to do a full-fidelity restore of domain objects that have been deleted and to use the much improved interface provided with this version of AD DS.

• Purchase any external domain namespaces that you might want to use on the Internet.

• Use RODCs in remote sites where security is not as strong.

• Strongly consider using dynamic DNS in an AD DS domain environment.

• Turn on global AD DS auditing to better understand changes made to Active ...

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