Keeping Up-To-Date and Safe

Now that we have gone through designing your Active Directory, and looked at some of the models available, we need to address security and documentation. These are both points that are just as vital as your design and migration. During the dot-com bubble, everyone that ever turned on a PC could call themselves a Systems Specialist or Systems Engineer. Crazy things, like Platform Designers, because they had a Windows 2000-based computer at home, were not unheard of either. The problems during the bubble were that people who really knew what they were doing were too expensive for a lot of companies to afford, and cheaper "specialists" were hired instead. These people then messed up most networks and network services and in the end were let go. The company then hired a more expensive person to fix the old issues, and so on. Because of this, and the rapid growth and changing markets during the bubble times, documentation was always ignored and backup solutions were...