This section includes topics about common configurations for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You can access all of these topics on the Active Directory Domain Services server role page in Server Manager. Under Resources and Support, you can view a description for each configuration in this list, and you can click links for more information from online resources.
- Improve Active Directory
Redundancy by Adding Another Domain Controller
- Optimize Resource Access
or Network Utilization by Deploying an Additional Domain
- Improve Security and
Reduce Network Traffic for a Branch Office by Deploying an
RODC
- Ensure Successful Active
Directory Operations by Managing Operations Master Roles
- Optimize Network
Utilization Across Geographic Locations by Adding an Active
Directory Site
- Share Resources with
Other Forests by Creating Trust Relationships
- Help Prepare for
Disaster Recovery by Performing Routine Backups of the Active
Directory Database
- Reduce Directory Size
and Ensure Its Integrity and Performance by Performing Offline
Defragmentation
- Improve Resource Access
Efficiency by Using Security Groups
- Ensure That DNS Clients
Can Locate Domain Controllers by Configuring DNS Support for AD
DS
- Simplify Active
Directory Administration by Delegating Management of Users,
Computers, and Other Network Resources
- Simplify Management of
User and Computer Accounts by Using Group Policy to Apply Common
Configurations
- Consolidate Servers by
Retiring a Domain Controller and Removing AD DS from the
Server
- Ensure That Clients Can
Access Resources by Configuring Time Synchronization Throughout the
Forest
- Enable Advanced Features
by Raising the Domain or Forest Functional Level
- Ensure Replication of
Group Policy Objects and Network Scripts in SYSVOL by Using FRS and
DFS Replication