Chapter 6 -- Creating a Site Topology Plan

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"