This guide targets customers who have deployed or are planning to deploy Windows Server 2003. It discusses the elements of a comprehensive plan for Active Directory security by providing best practice recommendations for protecting domain controllers from potential attacks of known origin and establishing secure administrative policies and practices. This guide also includes step-by-step methodology where appropriate to enact the security recommendations, and a security checklist that can be used to record and track the recommendations that are implemented.

At Microsoft.

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