----------------------------------------------------------------- SearchWin2000.com's Administrator Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S ADMINISTRATOR TIP: Best practices in Win2k deployment ================================================================= SPONSORED BY: SurfControl ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I couldn't believe what was happening right under my nose. They were downloading huge MP3 files, surfing for porn, trading jokes... my network was out of control. If it weren't for SuperScout's reports, I would have never believed it." - Network Manager. Try SuperScout Web Filter FREE for 30 days and see what's really going on: http://www.surfcontrol.com/promo/ZTTDN0822. ================================================================= "Best practices in Win2k deployment" By Microsoft Chances are you have not deployed Windows 2000 in your organization, or that you have Win2k Pro, but not the whole nine yards. This tip, from Microsoft, talks about some of the best practices you can follow when it finally comes time to deploy. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Your ultimate goal when creating planning documents and formulating a deployment plan is to successfully deploy Windows 2000 using project management techniques that work in your organization. Here are some best practice suggestions identified by some early adopters of Windows 2000. - Reference your organizational chart and see how the management structure in your organization matches up against both your organizational needs and your network LAN links. Build an Active Directory infrastructure based on these considerations. - Determine what level of international functionality you want to achieve and what trade-offs you are willing to make to get there. - Schedule for an additional level of complexity in testing your product. - Plan your application setup around Windows Installer. - Decide how you will break down system administration responsibilities for your application and identify who will be given administrative permissions. - Determine what policies are enforced on a typical user's system. - Utilize the new components offered in Windows 2000. Integrate them wisely to minimize their impact on the performance of your application. - Schedule enough time for installing Windows 2000 server -- block out several hours, at the very least. - Add international issues to your Windows 2000 issue lists and you're your tracking systems. - Develop "working groups" to study task-based architecture decisions. - Write a good test plan and set up a test lab that exactly mirrors your production environment in terms of types of hardware and software in use. - Upgrade conservatively at first. You can speed up the process and rate of deployment as you start achieving success. *Get the help and resources your need as a Windows administrator at searchWindowsManageability today. Check it out at http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/. ================================================================= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DID YOU LIKE TODAY'S TIP? ================================================================= We need your feedback! Whether you loved this tip or hated it, why not let us know? Go to http://www.searchWin2000.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci762394,00.html to rate it. Have additional comments? E-mail us at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to sound off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================================= SPONSORED BY: PowerQuest ----------------------------------------------------------------- Drive Image Pro 4.0 from PowerQuest offers IT professionals a fast, inexpensive solution for deploying Windows 2000 desktops. With Drive Image Pro, you can deploy hundreds of new systems, as well as get users up and running in just minutes. Whether deploying Windows 2000 or distributing a new or updated application, Drive Image Pro let's you do this quickly, easily and efficiently. For your FREE evaluation copy or to download a white paper, visit www.powerquest.com/promos/searchwin2k1.html. ================================================================= BONUS TIPS AND YOUR CHANCE TO WIN! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the following user submitted administrator tips. Please rate them, too! Your votes help us pick our monthly tip contest winners. "Need Console control remotely?" by Bob Fuller: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci761639,00.html "Making a Win2k DNS root server into a non-root server (forwarder)" by Joe Keegan: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci760110,00.html Time is running out! Don't miss your chance to win this month's prize -- a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Certified Multimedia Speakers. Submit your own tip today at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid1_prz758210_cts758207,00.html. ================================================================= FEATURED BOOK ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Windows 2000 Deployment and Desktop Management" Author: Jeffrey Ferris Publisher: New Riders Published: Apr. 2000 Some of Windows 2000's most anticipated features involve more powerful, effective, remote and unattended Windows client management. "Windows 2000 Deployment and Desktop Management," written by one of the most experienced practitioners in the business, shows experienced administrators how to implement these technologies on their own networks. It is geared towards experienced system Administrators, system integrators, system engineers and other IT professionals who are responsible for rolling out Windows 2000 Professional in an enterprise environment. http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?isbn=0735709750&ac_id=73 ================================================================= If you would like to sponsor this or any techtarget newsletter, please contact Mike Kelly at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. ================================================================= If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Or, visit http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/register and adjust your subscriptions accordingly. If you choose to unsubscribe using our automated processing, you must send the "REMOVE" request from the email account to which this newsletter was delivered. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed.
