In this interview, I met up with Charles Denny on the solutions accelerator team who is in charge of the infrastructure and planning guide for AD (this is the next generation of the (WSSRA) guides. We talk about the purpose of this guide and dig into information in the guide which might be useful to you such as his viewpoint on one of the most difficult business decisions which need to be made in an AD environment.
There is tons of documentation out there on how to technically do things with AD, but until now with the IPD, there is not very much with how to successfully design your infrastructure and the decisions which need to be made along the way. For instance, divestitures in deciding what forest design to choose is one important factor to consider. This guide will help you in migrating to Windows Server 2008 from a needed angle.
To take a look at the beta to the TS and AD guides, go to the Connect site by clicking here if new or here if already enrolled.
Also, the guides for the below can be found here:
Infrastructure Planning and Design Series Introduction
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
SoftGrid Application Virtualization
Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 virtualization and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)
