Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

5-6: Define Your Administrative Model

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Business analysis
Solution summary	Define an administrative model that thoroughly reflects the current state and supports changes in the future.
Benefits	You must completely understand and document the current and desired administrative models before you can implement role-based, least-privilege Active Directory delegation.

Introduction

With the right tools and knowledge, the technical processes used to delegate control in Active Directory are fairly straightforward. What I find to be more difficult for most organizations are the business aspects of the delegation project. Specifically, few organizations have defined their administrative model to a level ...