You need to consider carefully not only your physical network infrastructure but also
your overall organizational structure when planning, designing, and implementing
Active Directory. In general, you want to leverage domains and OUs to organize your
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directory based on your business organization, lines of authority, and areas of responsibility.
Once those logical pieces are in place, you will need to create sites effectively around
well-connected subnets to optimize replication traffic.
The new features of Active Directory Domain Services such as RODCs can help
further increase security across your network while providing load-balancing services to
improve your overall user experience. Just as important is the need for a backup and
recovery solution that is not only well documented but tested on a regular basis to prepare
for disaster recovery and business continuity. Windows Server 2008 doesn??™t completely
revamp Active Directory. Instead, it expands its functionality and gives you even more
flexibility with regards to Active Directory infrastructure planning, design, and security.
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In Windows Server 2008, Windows Deployment Services (WDS) replaces Remote
Installation Services (RIS) offered in previous versions of Windows Server.
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