Hello Everyone,

I need to create a document having the best practices for AD containing best practices for DNS, DHCP, AD Structure, Group Policy, Trust Etc.

I just need the best practices irrespective of what is implemented in our company.

I just need to create a document for analysis as of now. I searched over the internet but could not find much. I would request you all to pour in your suggestions from where i can find those.

If anyone could send me or point me the link. I am pretty new to the technology, so need your help.

Thanks in Advance

Hello,

Please use this documents:

ActiveDirectoryDesignGuide

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD)

Regards

I have an article where I shared the best practices to use to avoid known AD/DNS issues: http://www.ahmedmalek.com/web/fr/articles.asp?artid=23

However, you need first to identify your requirements and based on these requirements, you can identify what should be implemented on your environment and how to manage it. The basics here is that you need to have at least two DC/DNS/GC servers per AD domain for the High Availability. You need also to take a system state backup of at least one DC/DNS/GC server in your domain. As for DHCP, you can use 50/50 or 80/20 DHCP rule depending on your setup.

You can also refer to that: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754678%28v=ws.10%29.aspx