I don't have your situation, but consider that when I create groups for permissions and DLs, I'm pretty loquacious - for instance, on the file server I have US-HomeDepartmentsIT-RW and in Exchange I have US-IT-DL.
This kind of naming convention is indeed self documenting. I approve of your approach. Kurt On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Christopher Bodnar < [email protected]> wrote: > Just looking for opinions here: > > Say you have multiple directory repositories across your development > platforms (UAT, SIT, Dev, SIT, Prod, etc ...). Each with it's own directory > (LDAP, AD, etc....). > > When you name your service accounts across the environments, do you prefer > to note the environment in the name? For example do you do this for each > service ID for an application: > > Widget_ServiceID1 > > So the name would be the same in each directory for that application? > > Or would you do something like this? > > Widget_ServiceID1_Dev > Widget_ServiceID1_UAT > Widget_ServiceID1_Prod > > I prefer the latter solution, and a colleague of mine vehemently objects > to this. My reasoning is that when referencing the name of the account in > e-mail, or discussions, it's self documenting. You immediately know what > environment they are talking about. > > > Thoughts? > > Thanks > > *Christopher Bodnar* > Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise > Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 > 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 > [email protected] > > > * > The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America* > * > **www.guardianlife.com* <http://www.guardianlife.com/> > > > ----------------------------------------- This message, and any > attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that > any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this > message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, > please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the > message and any attachments. Thank you.
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