Is your organization planning to move to Windows 2000/2003 with Active Directory? Do you have the expertise in house for a successful migration? Are you confident that you have the necessary experience to properly design and plan for a smooth and successful migration? If not?  You should consider having your team spend a few days with the experts from Allin, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Enterprise Systems!  The purpose of the workshop is to provide you with a roadmap for deploying Active Directory. The workshop will consist of a 3 day training and planning session, followed by a day to document the design and project plan and a final day presentation.

Objective:       To provide real-world expertise and guidance in assisting customer to design and plan for a successful migration to Active Directory

Cost:             Contact your Allin Account Manager

Location:        3 days on-site / 2 days off-site

Deliverables:   Active Directory Design document and project plan

Day One   (on-site)

·         Active Directory Design Presentation 

·         Review of current infrastructure / discovery

·         Review Active Directory feature sets and determine Active Directory project scope

Day Two  (on-site)

·         Active Directory Design Whiteboard Session

-        Create preliminary Active Directory Forest Plan

-        Create preliminary Active Directory Domain Plan

-        Create preliminary Active Directory Site Plan

-        Create preliminary Active Directory Plan

-        Review current DNS Architecture

-        Create preliminary Active Directory DNS plan

-        Define Active Directory Namespace

-        Define Active Directory deployment approach

-        Define hardware requirements for Windows 2000/2003 DCs

Day Three  (on-site)

·         Design review

-        Finalize Active Directory Forest Plan

-        Finalize Active Directory Domain plan

-        Finalize Active Directory Organizational Unit Plan

-        Finalize Active Directory DNS Plan

-        Finalize Active Directory deployment strategy

·         Identify necessary third party tools

·         Finalize Windows 2000/2003 DC hardware requirements

·         Develop timelines for development and deployment phases

·         Identify necessary hardware and software for development lab

Day Four  (off-site)

·         Prepare Active Directory Design document and project plan

Day Five (on-site)

·         Final presentation and wrap-up, discussion of next steps