Imagine
you are working for a large international purchasing company that has just
bought a growing local company that manufactures western wear at several
locations (it’s a group of cottage industries; remember from the other
scenarios that it now has eight (8) satellite offices, four (4) large and four
(4) small ones). The previous owner, Sam Yosemite, tells his IT team to provide
support and information to your IT staff to help with the transition to your
forest domain. Gathering information from the other writing assignment
descriptions, decide the best ways to bring the “Wild Frontier”
network into your domain, “Foghorn Leghorn” and migrate to your
current standards.
The
business acquisition is largely superficial and the existing personnel
structures will remain in place. You have to bring the “Wild
Frontier” under the “Foghorn Leghorn” domain and make sure
production needs are met at all the satellite locations. Your budget is fairly
generous due to allocated funds for the transition, but will likely be much
more constrained in the future. Take maintenance costs (both money and
man-hours) into consideration as you design your solutions.
The
same design requirements specified in the writing assignments (support, hours
of operation, remote staff, Internet access, and sensitive file access) still
apply, but disk space management is no longer as much of a concern and being
part of a large company brings economies of scale to licensing purchases; take
advantage of these. Department cost allocation is even more of a priority.
Providing shooting targets (large paper reports) for Sam is no longer a need
(the managers celebrate).
Workstations
will all be standardized and provided with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI). Use those to your best advantage for standardization and support staff
man-hour savings while still addressing control over users’ access of
unapproved media services and applications.
Write
a ten to fifteen (10-15) page technical paper which covers the following:
Suggest
how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications
and support for the remote offices.
Determine
how application pools will help to reduce costs. Be specific in your
configuration specifications.
Formulate
how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security
and appropriate access.
Evaluate
how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the
additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work.
Examine
how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs.
Propose
how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations.
Provide
a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as
much as possible.
Determine
what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements.
Use
Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout
of your plan. Note: The
graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Use
at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia
and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
