AD, DNS and virtualization resources

Last post before I take a long and deserving vacation. For all of those that are taking care of Active Directory configuration, management and planning, here are few great resources that will help you in keeping your AD and DNS infrastructure healthy and your users quiet and satisfied. Also, I included some virtualization and Windows core services articles. These articles, blog posts and document are collected during my research on LDAP, collaboration systems and AD/DNS best practices in the past few months.

Links to blog posts and online articles:

• Best Practice:Active Directory Structure Guidelines
• DNS Namespace Planning Solution Center
• Creating a DNS Infrastructure Design

• Domain Name System Portal
• Analyzing the Server Core Updates Estimate
• Microsoft VDI: Whitepapers and FAQ
• Group Policy Search Service
• How Microsoft.com moved to a Virtualized Infrastructure
• How to virtualize AD Domain Controllers Part 1 & Part 2
• Windows Time Service Technical Reference
• Microsoft Virtualization Resources Portal

Links to whitepapers and FAQs:

• Active Directory Maximum Limits – Scalability
• Active Directory LDAP Compliance
• Active Directory Technical Overview
• Microsoft Strategy for LDAP
• Understanding LDAP
• Understanding Identity Lifecycle Manager 2
• Windows Server 20008 Identity Management Features

Have a great vacation! See you in 4 weeks.

Related posts:

1. Licensing Microsoft virtual machines on alternate virtualization platforms
2. Windows Server 2008 RMS (Part 1)
3. Windows Server 2008 RMS (Part 2)
4. Windows Server 2008 RMS (Part 4)
5. Windows Server 2008 R2 AD Disaster Recovery (Part 1)

Tagged as: Active Directory, Tips and tricks, Virtualization, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2