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Analyzing Business
Requirements |
Analyze the existing
and planned business models.
- Analyze the company model and the geographical
scope. Models include international, national,
regional, branch, and subsidiary offices.
- Analyze company processes. Processes include
information flow, communication flow, service and
product life cycles, and decision-making.
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Analyze the existing
and planned organizational structures. Considerations
include the management model; company organization;
vendor, partner, and customer relationships; and
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Analyze factors that
influence company strategies.
- Identify company priorities.
- Identify the projected growth and growth
strategy.
- Identify relevant laws and regulations.
- Identify the company's tolerance for risk.
- Identify the total cost of operations.
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Analyze the structure
of IT management. Considerations include the type of
administration,such as centralized or decentralized;
funding model; outsourcing; decision-making process;
and change-management process. |
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Analyzing Technical
Requirements |
Evaluate the
company's existing and planned technical environment.
- Analyze company size and the distribution of
users and resources.
- Assess the available connectivity between the
geographic locations of work sites and remote sites.
- Assess the net available bandwidth.
- Analyze performance requirements.
- Analyze data and system access patterns.
- Analyze network roles and responsibilities.
- Analyze security considerations.
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Analyze the impact of
Active Directory on the existing and planned technical
environment. Considerations include Microsoft Exchange
2000.
- Assess existing systems and applications.
- Identify existing and planned upgrades and
rollouts.
- Analyze the technical support structure.
- Analyze existing and planned network and systems
management.
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Analyze the business
requirements for client computer desktop management.
- Analyze end-user work needs.
- Identify technical support needs for end users.
- Establish the required client computer
environment.
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Designing a
Directory Service Architecture |
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Define the scope of
the Active Directory design. |
Design an Active
Directory forest and domain structure.
- Design a forest and schema structure.
- Design a domain structure.
- Analyze and optimize trust relationship
requirements.
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Design an Active
Directory naming strategy.
- Plan the WINS NetBIOS name resolution strategy.
- Design the namespace.
- Plan the DNS strategy.
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Design and plan the
structure of organizational units. Considerations
include administrative control, existing domain
structures, administrative policy, and geographic and
company structure.
- Develop an organizational unit delegation plan.
- Plan Group Policy object management.
- Develop a change in the configuration management
plan for client computers.
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Plan for the
coexistence of Active Directory and other directory
services. |
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Design a schema
modification policy. |
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Design an Active
Directory implementation plan. |
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Designing Service
Locations |
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Design the placement
of operations masters. Considerations include
performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and
manageability. |
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Design the placement
of global catalog servers. Considerations include
performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and
manageability. |
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Design the placement
of domain controllers. Considerations include
performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and
manageability. |
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Design the placement
of DNS, WINS, and DHCP servers. Considerations include
performance, fault tolerance, functionality,
manageability, and interoperability. |
Design an Active
Directory site topology.
- Design a replication strategy.
- Define site boundaries.
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