Windows Server 2003: Best Practices for Enterprise Deployments

by Danielle Ruest, Nelson Ruest

Overview

Helps to discover the fastest way to migrate to Windows Server 2003 and begin to profit from its enterprise-ready features. This work aims to enable the reader learn: how to make the most of Active Directory as an object management environment to remotely configure PCs, servers, users and groups; and how to use the parallel network.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072223439
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Series:	Networking Series
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.11(h) x 1.12(d)

Table of Contents

1: Planning for Windows Server 2003 2: Preparing for Massive Installations of Windows Server 2003 3: Designing the Active Directory 4: Designing the Enterprise Network IP Infrastructure 5: Building the PC Organizational Unit Infrastructure 6: Preparing the User Organizational Unit Infrastructure 7: Designing the Network Services Infrastructure 8: Managing Enterprise Security 9: Creating a Resilient Infrastructure 10: Putting the Enterprise Network into Production

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Deploying a Windows Server 2003 network is 80 percent planning and preparation, and 20 percent implementation. Windows Server 2003: Best Practices for Enterprise Deployments is indispensable for both the 80 percent and the 20 percent.

Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest introduce PASS, a systematic architectural model for server construction and management. This model intelligently organizes all the services the network must provide -- and, in so doing, simplifies planning and makes it far easier to deploy Windows Server 2003 reliably. (Elements of PASS were first introduced in the authors' previous book, Preparing for .NET Enterprise Technologies.)

The Ruests next walk you through designing enterprise network architecture, and preparing for massive installations of Windows Server 2003. If possible, they recommend using Windows Server 2003 migration as an opportunity to implement a new network, using new principles and architecture. They present a complete "Parallel Network Approach" for doing this with as little risk and disruption as possible.

You'll find thorough chapters on both Active Directory and IP design; preparing and building PC and user organizational unit infrastructure; and designing network service infrastructure. The authors then turn to implementing a "Castle Defense" security system based on multiple, cumulative barriers to entry. After a full chapter of best practices for improving resiliency, they walk through taking your new network into production.

Each chapter is complemented by many downloadable tools: enterprise network, Active Directory, and security design blueprints, server sizing exercises, group policy documentation spreadsheets, print and terminal server preparation process documents, and much more. If you're able to follow the authors' reasonable approach, this book will be of immeasurable value. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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