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Chapter One
Active Directory Forest Design
How do you optimally design a database that replicates only parts of itself to as many as thousands
of domain controllers at differing intervals? Therein lies the need for this book. Active Directory
may very well become the largest database implementation within your organization. If you talk
to very many database administrators, you will see them cringe when you mention that you would like
to replicate a database to multiple servers. But that is exactly what you are going to do with Active
Directory and your domain controllers.
Throughout the first section of this book, I am going to discuss design criteria that you should
consider when designing your Active Directory infrastructure. The chapters in Part I are organized
simply. To do an Active Directory design, go through the chapters in order. By doing so, you will end
up with a good understanding of the building blocks for a design that allows for efficient administration
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