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AD design

Asked by credmood in Active Directory

Tags: roaming, best, practice

Hi All,

If I could ask for a little advice on my AD enviroment and mving forward..

I have a 1300 user doman (2003) at present the AD had grown organically out of a few mergers and has so many problems with a: to many security groups and b: to many GPO's . It cant be helping with things like logon times for users, which is bad. I have a netapp san/nas .. it is in the main a terminal server environment, we have a few PC's for certain users but most people are thin client based. All users profiles are roaming. All profiles will be held on the SAS disks of the netapp box. At present they are on standard servers.

I have a few large projects on the go..Im moving my environment to a CO-LO and moving from a point to point to a MPLS network between all my main sites. I also have a citrix project to complete. I have convinced my boss's that a 1300 user TS server infrastructure is a poor idea and we needed a best practice scaleable citrix deployemnt. Native windows TS for 1300 users using NLB is just plain wrong.

However, and this is the crux of the question...I belive that the fundemental building block of all my projects is getting AD correct, and because of the mess of the present domain, a rebuild is required. I belive that we have to get AD right in order to move forward with the citrix projcet. I dont want to go to the data centre with the same environment and it being rubbish. I want to build a pristine environment in AD terms and citrix farm terms at the DC and migrate people.

I will have a 50Mb LAN x circuit from my main site to the DC and am worried about the profiles, however with citrix this wont be an issue as all my servers will be at teh co-lo .. the site will be all thin client.

Can anyone offer any advice on the importance of AD in all im trying to achieve.

Thanks all
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