It's always a good thing to stand on the shoulders of giants, and implement technology in a way such that you take advantage of the experience of others. If only someone collected all of these... er... "Best Practices" into one place!
Today, I will share the Microsoft Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 (in alphabetical order no less!)
Bonus tip... this is great knowledge to have when going in for a job interview, or when working on a Certification :)
Windows Server Best Practices
Active Directory Best practices
ATM Best practices
Best practices for Active Directory Domains and Trusts
Best practices for Active Directory Schema
Best practices for Active Directory Sites and Services
Best practices for Active Directory Users and Computers
Best practices for assigning permissions on Active Directory objects
Auditing Security Events Best practices
B
Best practices for Backup
C
Certificate Services Best practices
Certificate Templates Best practices
Connection Point Services Best Practices
D
Best practices for disaster recovery
Best practices for Disk Defragmenter
Best practices for Disk Management
Best practices for Disk Quotas
Best practices for Distributed File System (DFS)
DHCP Best Practices
DNS best practices
E
Encrypting File System best practices
Best practices for implementing security measures
Best practices for selecting and configuring hardware
Best practices for using in-band tools
I
Best practices for installing and upgrading the operating system
IAS Best Practices
IPSec Best practices
L
Best practices for Licensing
Local Users and Groups Best practices
M
Modem best practices
Performance monitoring best practices
N
Network Connections Best Practices
Network Load Balancing Best practices
Network Monitor Best practices
Best practices for Client Service for NetWare
Best practices for NWLink
P
Password Best practices
Best practices for permissions and user rights
Printing Best practices
R
Registry best practices
Best Remote Access practices
Remote Administration Best practices
Remote Desktop for Administration Best practices
Best practices for Remote Installation Services
Best practices for Remote Storage
Best practices for Removable Storage
Routing best practices
S
Best practices for security
Best practices for Security Configuration and Analysis
Best practices for Security Settings
Best practices for Security Templates
Server Cluster Best Practices
Services best practices
Services for Macintosh Best practices
Best practices for Shared Folders
Shutdown Event Tracker Best practices
SNMP Best practices
Software Restriction Policies Best Practices
Stored User Name and Password Best practices
T
Best practices for TCP/IP
Telephony Best practices
Telnet Server best practices
Terminal Server Best practices
Terminal Services User Properties Best practices
Windows Time Service Best practices
U
User Profiles best practices
V
VPN best practices
W
WINS Best Practices