This page will have links to tips and whitepapers on Active Directory planning and deployment. A fair number of these will be Microsoft initially. If you know of a good resource which I should link in, please let me know. .

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• Guide to Active Directory Design
• Best Practice Active Directory Design for Managing Windows Networks (1M Word doc)
• -->Best Practice Active Directory Deployment for Managing Windows Networks (2.8M Word doc) -->
• Active Directory Branch Office Planning Guide
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• DNS Requirements for Deploying Active Directory
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• Domain Migration Cookbook (67K Word doc)
• Design Considerations for Delegation of Administration in Active Directory (277K Word doc)
  Achieving Autonomy and Isolation with Forests, Domains, and Organizational Units
• Sizing Guidelines for Windows 2000 Domain Controller and Global Catalog Server (231K Word doc)
• Planning Migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 (722K Word doc)
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• NetWare to Windows 2000 Server Migration Planning Guide (474K Word doc)
• Outline for Group Policy Design (177K Word doc)
• Upgrading a Windows NT Domain to Windows 2000 Active Directory (1.7M Word doc)
• Designing and Implementing an Organizational Unit Structure
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• Designing a Site Topology for Active Directory Replication
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• Active Directory Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, and Recovery