Microsoft Active Directory Branch Office Series, Volume 2: Deployment &

This volume, Deployment and Operations, provides the step-by-step
procedures required to implement the design. The companion
volume, Planning, describes all the tasks and decisions
that must be completed to develop the MS
Active Directory design for a large branch office
deployment. While this series is focused on branch
office deployment, the issues and concepts discussed here
will frequently have relevance in other scenarios.
This book
covers the following topics: Overview of deploying and
operating Active Directory for branch office environments; Building
the forest root domain and central hub site;
Building the branch office domain and bridgehead servers;
Pre-staging configuration at the hub; Creating and configuring
the staging domain controller; Staging a branch office
domain controller; Pre-shipment configuration of the branch office
domain controller; Quality assurance of the domain controller
at the branch office; Ensuring Active Directory health
in branch office environments; Disaster recovery for branch
office environments; Troubleshooting guidelines for branch office environments.
The
companion CD-ROM contains: Checklists; Scripts; Templates.