Eddie, I've been in educational institutions in the past. The temptation is to make the "hard" boundary at the school building, but it's unlikely that every school would have the IT people needed to manage a separate domain. Definitely go with OUs so you can centrally manage user accounts. Delegate computer and other objects to the school IT staff as OU administrators--the OUs act much like NT4 resource domains did. If WAN links are iffy, you could put 1 DC in each school; manage the central office, the bus & maintenance facilities centrally.
Good luck! AL Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services IT | Information Technology Agilent Technologies (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com ---------------------------------------------- A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eddie Greene Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] We have not rolled out AD yet and are banging our heads against the wall figuring out which way to go. We have 24 Schools 1 Main office, 1 Maintenance shop, 1 Bus Garage. would it be best for use to roll out a single domain or 27 domains in our forest. it is not important for our users to be able to go to other locations and log into the system. It would be nice to be able to replicate a folder with all the schools that contains programs you never have when you need them (i.e. Adobe). I haven't got a clear understanding of Domains vs. OUs. One way I read it would be best for each school to be a domain and in another reading I think that each school just needs to be their own OU. any help would be greatly appreciated Eddie List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
