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Clutch send words that Windows 2000 magazine has posted 2 interesting Windows 2000 articles:

DNS and Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) is a nice bit of technology—particularly for a version 1.0 technology—that has grabbed many headlines in the Windows 2000­related literature in the past couple of years. But to work correctly, AD needs its own directory: the directory of servers and workstations that you know as DNS. Before you start your AD planning, you need to do your DNS homework—or the best-planned AD will run badly.
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Single Domain Migration
Staying with Windows NT might have made sense to the administrators of small shops and single domains: Although NT Server isn't as sexy as Windows 2000 Server, when correctly installed and configured, NT Server is stable and reliable. Also, requirements to meet and concepts to learn clutter the Win2K migration path. However, DNS and Active Directory (AD) offer great benefits, and Microsoft has made the upgrade process as simple as possible. Now is the time for single-domain administrators to migrate their NT infrastructure completely to Win2K—DNS, AD, and all.
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