Is This Considered Configuring Active Directory? A General Question.

[NewUser]

When interviewing a candidate for a position, He claims that he
configured Active Directory. When I asked what exactly what he did,
He claimed that the configured the OU's by region/location, he setup
sites and services and he populated the database with user info, set
up users and printers and instituted a group policy at the OU level.

So my question is...Would you consider this to be the bulk of what
Active Directory configuration consists of. I know that their are
some utilities that need to be run and monitoring of replication and
such, but "Did he configure AD"?

TIA

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

When interviewing a candidate for a position, He claims that he
configured Active Directory. When I asked what exactly what he did,
He claimed that the configured the OU's by region/location, he setup
sites and services and he populated the database with user info, set
up users and printers and instituted a group policy at the OU level.

So my question is...Would you consider this to be the bulk of what
Active Directory configuration consists of. I know that their are
some utilities that need to be run and monitoring of replication and
such, but "Did he configure AD"?

As a first pass I would say.

The things he did not do are related to the design of the forest (number of
domains etc).
He also did not mention other than "he setup sites and services" if he was
involved in the design of the replication topology and connectivity
(scheduling etc). There is also no mention of schema changes (this may not
have been necessary in his environment.) No mention of design of a backup
or disaster recovery strategy. No mention of Group design. Nothing on
namespace design - this is related to my first point about the forest/domain
design, this also then leads into the DNS side of AD name and service
resolution and location. No mention of security configuration or audit etc.

All of this aside the person had done the bulk of "basic" configuration and
population of an Active Directory.


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[Richard Moreno]

Hi Tia-

I would say that with what you've stated that was told to you, this
candidate sounds like he\she has had expierience with basic managment of AD.
What was mentioned are just a few things needed in managing AD. Perhaps also
question them on Operations Masters aka FSMO roles (what are they?) and even
have them tell you about disaster recovery for AD, hit candidates up about
how to manage or monitor replication and ask for scenarios they've
encountered. Question them about DNS implementation, namespace resolution,
perhaps even diagram a Forest design, discuss site topology, and AD Schema.

If you're looking for someone to only manage your AD, this candidate may
seem to fit that small requirement (perhaps if this person will be an
addition to an IT Staff with a AD Admin already) but if you need someone to
be the sole admin, perhaps a 2nd interview is needed if still interested by
your company.

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Thanks,
Richard Moreno
MCSE NT4\2000, MCSA 2000

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