Active Directory Assessment Inquiry

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msadexchman

Hello,

I've been tasked with having to visit a customer who has a
very large Windows platform which from what I've been
told "consists of many AD domains and potentially multiple
forests". The customer is asking us to come in to perform
an assessment because they're starting to realize that
they're going down the wrong path with their AD
environment (s) and see no light at the end of the tunnell
with respect to a "centralized environment". From what
I've been told, too many people can simply stand up a
domain at will and it's taking place which is reminding
them of the old NT 4.0 days.

My question is, can anyone help me out with first hand
experience and/or online references as to what type of
approach I should take when I sit down with the IT
Director or this large organization? It's actually a
large College University so if anyone has had to do the
same thing for this type of client, that would be great.
I guess I'm looking things like: what type of questions to
ask ? what approach to take ?

This isn't the actual assessment, but simly a short
meeting to learn what's going on.

Regards
 
Don't want to sound rude but quite possibly this is a bit outside of your
capability? You don't just walk in raw to large environments. They are set up
considerbly different from small environments. You either need to work your way
up to them or you need to learn within them. Going in and trying to direct
someone what to do when you don't know how it should be done or what to even
look at to change isn't a good thing to do and could really hurt your career.

joe
 
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