Preparing Your Network Infrastructure for Windows 2000

Before you deploy Microsoft® Windows® 2000 into your organization, you must prepare your network. This chapter will help you, the network administrator, identify the areas of the network infrastructure, such as servers, routers, and network services, that might need to be upgraded or modified before deploying Windows 2000. This chapter also discusses documenting your current network infrastructure.

Before reading this chapter, review the material presented in "Creating a Deployment Roadmap"and "Planning for Deployment"in this book.

In This Chapter

Documenting Your Current Environment

Preparing Your Network Architecture

Chapter Goals

This chapter will help you develop the following planning documents:

Inventories, diagrams, and documentation of your current networking environment.
An infrastructure preparation plan for Windows 2000 deployment.

Related Information in the Resource Kit

For more information about Windows 2000 TCP/IP, see the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit TCP/IP Core Networking Guide.
For more information about evaluating your existing network, infrastructure, and protocols, see "Determining Network Connectivity Strategies"in this book.
For more information about creating a domain migration plan, see "Determining Domain Migration Strategies"in this book.