Assignment
2: Managing a Merger
Due Week 10 and worth 140 points
Imagine you work for Quality
Corporation (Quality.ad) who has just recently bought Crescent Inc.
(Crescent.ad) in a recent merger. Quality and Crescent have separate offices in
St. Louis (Quality HQ), Little Rock, and Austin (Crescent HQ). Crescent also
has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Santa Fe. The desire is to establish
trusts between the two (2) AD forests and consolidate core services (DNS, DHCP,
etc.) as soon as possible. Both companies are running Server 2012 as Domain
Controllers. Their primary DNS, DHCP, and Domain Controller servers are in the
two (2) corporate headquarters with secondary servers located in the other
cities to reduce latency.
For the Quality.ad domain, the Flexible
Single Master Operation (FMSO) roles are located on Server01, which is located
at the Quality HQ. For the Crescent.ad domain, the FSMO roles are located on
RWDC01, which is located at the Crescent HQ. In addition, the Quality.ad domain
has several servers configured as a Certificate Authority, and the Crescent.ad
domain has a single Certificate Authority.
During this acquisition, you will
need to consider the following:
- The Crescent Inc. has developed
several enhancements for the widgets that your company produces. The
engineering documents are installed on the ServerDocs located at the
Austin office. You will need to configure the necessary systems so that
the engineers from Quality Corporation can access these documents. Since
these documents are considered proprietary and highly confidential, you
must ensure that no other users except the two (2) engineering teams can
access these documents and that the documents stay within the company. - For both organizations, all
user IDs and digital certificates from the other organization must be
recognized.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page
paper in which you:
- Explain the key considerations
behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. - Suggest a method for
consolidating Core Network services. - Provide a plan for integrating
both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible.
Your assignment must follow these
formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using
Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check
with your professor for any additional instructions. - Include a cover page containing
the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the
course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not
included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning
outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Describe, manage, and install
Active Directory replication, federation services, and certificate
services. - Demonstrate the ability to plan
an advanced AD, DHCP, and DNS solution. - Describe and plan for
configuring a domain and forest as well as configuring trusts. - Use technology and information
resources to research issues in advanced network infrastructure
environments. - Write clearly and concisely
about advanced network infrastructure topics using proper writing
mechanics and technical style conventions.
