Network Services Best Practices

Hello
I've been using the Network Services Best Practices document (27 Sep 2006) for some years now and I wonder if there has been actually an update to it. If not would you guys have any new Network Best Practices document you would suggest? Something that talks about Virutalization, etc.... would be great

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Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please check the answer by Clarence Zhang for some basic suggestion.
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Hello Powershell World,
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You cannot remote without enabling remoting. You only need to enable remoting once. It is a configuraiton change. If you have done it once you do not need to do it again.
Here is how to runfrom a list of DCs.
$sb={
Import-Module bestpractices
Invoke-BPAModel Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer
Get-BPAResult Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer |
Select ModelId,Severity,Category,Title,Problem,Impact,Resolution,Compliance,Help |
Sort Category |
Export-CSV "\\server\share\BPA_DNS_$env:COMPUTERNAME.csv"
Invoke-BPAModel Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices
# etc...
ForEach($dc in $listofDCs){
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