Windows Tip: Building a Supportable Enterprise - Part 1

By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

There are lots of different ways you can approach building an enterprise Windows network. Some of these ways are supportable though while others aren't. A supportable network is one you can administer easily and where you can get help from Microsoft Customer Support Services (which was formerly called and still frequently referred to as Product Support Services or PSS). An unsupportable network however is one that has become difficult to administer, and if it gets really bad then CSS may tell you that your only option is to flatten and rebuild everything from scratch. Clearly it's better to keep your Windows-based network supportable than let it become unsupportable. How do you do that?

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