{"id":1218,"date":"2008-09-24T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/active-directory-design-considerations-part-8-summary-and-further-information.htm"},"modified":"2008-11-12T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:58:58","slug":"active-directory-design-considerations-part-8-summary-and-further-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/active-directory-design-considerations-part-8-summary-and-further-information.htm","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory design considerations: part 8 (summary and further information)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a series of posts about design considerations for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mcstalks\/\">MCS Talks: Enterprise Infrastructure<\/a> series of webcasts. 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As business and technical application requirements change, so might the optimum directory configuration, particularly after major infrastructure changes such as a network upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mcstalks\/\">MCS Talks<\/a> series is still running (and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mcstalks\/archive\/2008\/08\/22\/session-2-details-further-resources.aspx\">additional resources to compliment the second session on core infrastructure<\/a>). I also have some notes from the third and fourth sessions on messaging and security that are ready to share so, if you&#8217;re finding this information useful, make sure you have <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.markwilson.co.uk\/marksweblog\/\">subscribed to the RSS feed<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a series of posts about design considerations for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), based on the MCS Talks: Enterprise Infrastructure series of webcasts. Just to summarise, the posts so far have been: Introduction. Forest and domain design. Organisational Units. Group policy objects. Security groups. Domain controller placement and site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/active-directory-design-considerations-part-8-summary-and-further-information.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Active Directory design considerations: part 8 (summary and further information)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-active-directory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Active Directory design considerations: part 8 (summary and further information) - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/active-directory-design-considerations-part-8-summary-and-further-information.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Active Directory design considerations: part 8 (summary and further information) - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the last few days, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a series of posts about design considerations for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), based on the MCS Talks: Enterprise Infrastructure series of webcasts. 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