For staffing requirement, you'd want to model your needs against "Best Practices" of AD operations and delegation, especially if you are being asked for "industry standards". If you do that, you'd want to read: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/act ivedirectory/plan/addeladm.mspx#EFAA and http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/msa/edc/all/solution/en-us/r ak/rag/edcrag08.mspx to get an understand of the concepts of roles separation, things like autonomy and isolation, data admin vs service admins, forest owner vs domain owner, etc. When you do that, then you can make an argument to management that "Best Practices" dictate that you need to separate some functions that are currently combined and you need to bring in more people to do that. Of course, all this depends on the size of your enterprise. Good luck. Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Aragon Sent: Fri 11/11/2005 5:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs We have just had a major change in Upper Management and I have been given a rather rare opportunity. As the EA, I have been asked if I need hire more people to better manage the AD environment. My immediate answer was YES! Then I got the bad news, my answer needs to have supporting documentation of "industry standards". I have never seen any documents relating to this subject. So the question is, has anyone else? Can anyone point me to any documents relating to "industry standards" for workload and management (e.g. systems/tech, EA's/forest, etc.) of Active Directory (EA's, DA's, OU Admins, Techs, etc)? Anything published in the last couple of years would be useful. Thank you in advance. David Aragon 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/
