Stuart, By all means - thanks for this. It's nice to see you, Levon and others stop by. Adds a nice 'ambiance'.
Looking forward to seeing you in February, as MEC isn't going to happen for me (doing an inter-forest migration....) Tony (and others, if you're going - ) full book trip reports on your return, yes? ;-) Rick Kingslan - Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000] Microsoft Certified Trainer MCSA, MCSE+I - Windows NT / 2000 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --- Arthur C. Clarke > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stuart Kwan > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide > > > If there are ways that the AD team could publicize our key > docs better, please feel free to shoot me suggestions. Where > you do go about finding this stuff day-to-day? Moving > forward we'll try and make sure that activedir.org knows > about any key docs or tools that we post to the web. > > Today, we make sure that all of our key docs get posted on > http://www.microsoft.com/activedirectory. If I had to pick 5 > "must read" docs, I would pick: > > 1. Best Practice Active Directory Design for Managing > Windows Networks 2. Best Practice Active Directory > Deployment for Managing Windows Networks 3. Design > Considerations for Delegation of Administration in Active > Directory 4. Active Directory Operations Guide 5. Active > Directory Branch Office Planning Guide > > Just FYI, we recently launched a Directory Services community > page on Microsoft.com at > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/community/centers/directo > ryservices > /default.asp. I hope that activedir.org and that community > can be nice compliments to each other. > > By the way, let me introduce myself. I'm the Group Program > Manager of the Active Directory team in the Window Server > group at Microsoft. I lead a team of engineers that works > with customers to understand product requirements, and do > high level design & engineering based on those requirements. > You probably saw a message from Levon Esibov about an > informal meeting we're having at MEC 2002 next week. Folks > from my team will be mingling in that meeting - we're looking > forward to meeting you, if you will be there! > > Cheers, > Stuart > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:15 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide > > All, > > Just to correct the record and to assign credit where it is > due, Stephen Barnard wrote the first AD Ops Guide a couple of > years ago, and it was subsequently rewritten by Andreas > Luther, Paul Reiner, and Randy McLaughlin and several others. > My apologies for misassigning the credit. > > Nonetheless, its still a really good doc that isn't > publicized enough. If you are interested enough in AD to > subscribe to this list, you should read the AD Ops Guide. > > -gil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Kwan > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10/1/02 5:42 PM > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide > > Hey Gil, who is Mike Barnard? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:11 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide > > I thought *everyone* knew about this... yet another case of a > MSFT gem not being well promoted, I guess. > > I was a reviewer on this doc early on, and I have to say its > quite good. It follows the structure of the ITIL (Information > Technology Infrastructure Library www.itil.co.uk), a UK > government-funded project to accumulate IT best practices in > a single (huge) document library. MSFT is producing similar > docs for other system services and applications, but I don't > know where they are on it. Mike Barnard from MSFT did a great > job on the AD piece. > > -gil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:21 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodt echn ol/ad/windows2000/maintain/opsguide/default.asp I have been searching for a document like this to go along with my Architecture Document, and Implementation Document. Figured I would share my find with you fine folks. It serves as a good framework document. 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