MCSE Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Readiness Review; Exam 70-219 (Pro-Certification)
Chapter 6
About This Chapter
After you and your design team finish creating the OU Plan, the next stage in designing an Active Directory directory services infrastructure is to create a site topology plan. An Active Directory site topology is a logical representation of an organization's physical network. Creating a site topology plan includes defining sites, placing domain controllers, defining a replication strategy, and placing global catalog servers and operations masters within a forest. This chapter shows you how to create a site topology plan.
Before You Begin
To complete this chapter, you must have
- Knowledge of Active Directory components and concepts covered in Chapter 1, "Introduction to Active Directory"
- Knowledge of business and technical environment analyses components covered in Chapter 2, "Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure"
- Knowledge and skills covered in Chapter 3, "Creating a Forest Plan"
- Knowledge and skills covered in Chapter 4, "Creating a Domain Plan"
- Knowledge and skills covered in Chapter 5, "Creating an Organizational Unit Plan"