What is IMSS doing in regards to Active Directory?
IMSS, in collaboration with various groups on campus, has developed an Active Directory infrastructure that we feel best meets the needs of Caltech and its decentralized structure. Our research and Microsoft’s own recommendations have led to a design that comprises a single tree anchored by the root domain, ad.caltech.edu. In this scenario, the root domain will house the vast majority of divisions, departments and groups across campus, as in Figure 3. IMSS envisions that the vast majority of groups on campus will be assigned an Organizational Unit within the ad.caltech.edu domain, to which they will be granted full administrative control. Likewise, IMSS’ Windows-based services will be hosted on servers sitting in the ad.caltech.edu domain. IMSS will continue to create user accounts for all Caltech associates who currently are eligible for an IMSS account, there by reducing the administrate overhead of account maintenance for departments. These accounts will also sit in the ad.caltech.e
