...Active Directory Design Scenario When implementing a new AD DS infrastructure there are many business-related questions that need answered in order to accurately design a domain hierarchy. Below is what we need to know to effectively accomplish this, including the number of DCs, geographical placement, number of domains/forests etc. Ideally, all servers should run the latest version of windows and take advantage of all the advanced features available with the newest software. DC deployment configuration Decisions to make- Deploy a separate forest without any trusts? Deploy a new forest with federation? Deploy a new forest with Windows Server Active Directory forest trust for Kerberos? Extend Corp forest by deploying a replica DC? Extend Corp forest by deploying a new child domain or domain tree? Factors to consider- Security- what is your security plan? Compliance- is there any compliance codes or concerns? Cost- what is the budget? Resiliency and fault-tolerance- is there any implemented? Application compatibility- software and hardware compatibility Geographical Placement There can be a central location where all servers are located and use WAN links for sites to query DCs and DNS servers for network resources. Also, you may place DCs at sites if bandwidth utilization is at a premium. Needed to determine the number of DCs Collect the network info Plan domain controller placement Create a site design Create a site link design Create a site link bridge ...
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...Apply Activity 1: Active Directory Design Scenario When integrating AD DS with an existing DNS namespace, we recommend that you do the following: Install the DNS Server service on every domain controller in the forest. This provides fault tolerance if one of the DNS servers is unavailable. In this way, domain controllers do not need to rely on other DNS servers for name resolution. This also simplifies the management environment because all domain controllers have a uniform configuration. Configure the Active Directory forest root domain controller to host the DNS zone for the Active Directory forest. Configure the domain controllers for each regional domain to host the DNS zones that correspond to their Active Directory domains. Configure the zone containing the Active Directory forest-wide locator records to replicate to every DNS server in the forest by using the forest-wide DNS application directory partition. A computer might have a different existing DNS name if the organization previously, statically registered the computer in DNS or if the organization previously deployed an integrated Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution. If your client computers already have a registered DNS name, when the domain to which they are joined is upgraded to Windows Server 2008 AD DS, they will have two different names: The existing DNS name. The new fully qualified domain name (FQDN) Clients can still be located by either name. Any existing DNS, DHCP, or integrated DNS/DHCP...
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...Week 4 – Active Directory Design Scenario Since the two new braches office will be directly connected to main office you can configure hub and spoke topology. I would also recommend in hub site to have minimum two DC for redundancy. In the event of failure if second DC does not exist irrespective of OS version AD replication will be down totally. At least in the hub site you should have additional DC if not present. Branch 1 – For this site I would recommend setting up another line to the main hub to remove single point of failure. Also setting a backup for branch 1 located at main site and if possible at branch 2. A two way trust will need to be set up to support backup at main site/branch 2 if servers fail at branch 1. To support AD replication I would use two way trust network. Branch 2 – With branch 2 being located at a remote site I would recommend setting a VSAT system to remove the single point of failure. With the slow speed at this branch it would not make for a very good backup site. I would use two way trusts for replication of services. *Recommendations for Optimum Performance For Active Directory replication, a rule of thumb is that a given domain controller that acts as a bridgehead server should not have more than 50 active simultaneous replication connections at any given time in a replication window. (This was determined on a reference server that had four Pentium III Xeon processors with 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and 2 megabytes (MB) of L2 cache.) Adjusting...
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...project architect, project manager? Will this person also be in charge of the Active Directory? What is the budget, time-frame and schedule of this project? Does the other company have an IT Administrator or are they using a consultant? If so, it would be more cost effective to hire an IT Administrator. What are the business needs of the company we are merging with? Who is the WAN person responsible for the network? Have him/her provide a map of your current WAN network. What applications will be integrated in the AD/DS design? Will a variety of technologies, different levels of security and a global presence now or in the future be required? Where will all your data be stored? Will we be having geographically separate data rooms? Who are the Active Directory Service and Data Owners? (Service owners include the forest owner, the AD/DNS owner, and the site topology owner. The Data Owners will include organizational unit Owners. Will the other site have a Service Administrator or a Data Administrator? Because it is cost saving having Data Administrators. The Data Administrators are users within a Domain, who are responsible for both, maintaining data that is stored in the AD/DS i.e. user and group accounts and maintaining computers that are members of their domain. Service Administrators require a much higher skill set because they are responsible for maintaining the directory and the infrastructure that supports it. Dividing work assignments result in...
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...NT1330 HOMEWORK Active Directory Design Scenario To effectively achieve this I need to know and understand everything about Active Directory Domain Services. When designing and implementing an Active Directory domain, you need to think about the placement of your global catalog servers. The global catalog is the master index of objects within an Active Directory forest. The global catalog serves as a quick search tool to locate objects within a forest. Every domain must have at least one global catalog server. The first domain controller (DC) installed into a domain automatically serves as that domain's global catalog server by default. As the size of your forest grows, there may become a need to configure additional global catalog servers throughout the forest. There are two main issues to consider when placing global catalog servers into a domain. The first is the traffic levels and the second is the location of infrastructure servers. As the forest gets larger, so does the global catalog. As the global catalog expands, the amount of replication traffic it generates increases. Global catalog servers replicate with each other. This is separate replication traffic from that used to support Active Directory itself. From an overall perspective of the forest, when fewer global catalog servers are deployed in a forest, there will be less replication traffic, but it will cause more query traffic. Conversely, deploying more global catalog servers in a forest will cause more replication...
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...he correct word o words in the blank provided. 1. Active Directory will tolerate a maximum of a 5- minute clock skew between a client and the domain controller that authenticates it. 2. The PDC Emulator is responsible for managing time synchronization within a domain. 3. You can improve login times in a site that does not contain a global catalog server by implementing universal group membership caching. 4. To add or remove an application directory partition from Active Directory, the Domain Naming Master needs to be accessible. 5. If a domain controller that holds a FSMO role fails and will not be returned to the network, you can seize the FSMO role to another domain controller. 6. You can add additional attributes to the partial attribute set (PAS) by modifying the Active Directory schema. 7. The security identifier (SID) uniquely identifies an object within an Active Directory domain, but will change if an object is moved from one domain to another. 8. The Infrastructure Master FSMO role should not be housed on a domain controller that has been configured as a global catalog. 9. You can transfer the Domain Naming Master FSMO from one domain controller to another using the Active Directory Domains and Trusts MMC snap-in. 10. Membership information for a (an) universal group is stored on the global catalog. Case Scenarios Scenario 4-1: FSMO Role Placement-1 Contoso Pharmaceuticals...
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...Hello I am DeLoyal , your IT consultant. In regards to your scenario in designing a new Active Directory Forest, let me first go over what needs to be considered. There are five roles to be considered which are: * Schema master - Forest-wide and one per forest. * Domain naming master - Forest-wide and one per forest. * RID master - Domain-specific and one for each domain. * PDC - PDC Emulator is domain-specific and one for each domain. * Infrastructure master - Domain-specific and one for each domain. I would need these questions answered to proceed: 1. Do you have a domain name to use? 2. How many forests and what would they be named? 3. Is there 1 or more company locations? 4. How many Organization Units will there be? Names? 5. How do you want the DNS infrastructure and security strategies to be created? Windows Server 2003 supports the Active Directory containers of forest, domain, site, and organizational unit (OU). So the only real restriction of one forest per namespace, you can deploy as many domains, sites, and OUs as you deem necessary. Remember the key to Active Directory is simplicity. Try to keep the number of domains to a minimum whenever possible. If you really need department level divisions on your network that reflect the organization of your business, then use OUs instead. OUs are much more flexible and easier overall to manage than domains. Remember that it is not necessary to create separate domains to divide...
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...Active Directory Design Guide Thursday, 25 February 2010 Version 2.0.0.0 Baseline Prepared by Microsoft Prepared by Microsoft Copyright This document and/or software (“this Content”) has been created in partnership with the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Intellectual Property Rights to this Content are jointly owned by Microsoft and the NHS in England, although both Microsoft and the NHS are entitled to independently exercise their rights of ownership. Microsoft acknowledges the contribution of the NHS in England through their Common User Interface programme to this Content. Readers are referred to www.cui.nhs.uk for further information on the NHS CUI Programme. All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. © Microsoft Corporation 2010. All rights reserved. Disclaimer At the time of writing this document, Web sites are referenced using active hyperlinks to the correct Web page. Due to the dynamic nature of Web sites, in time, these links may become invalid. Microsoft is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. Page ii Active Directory – Design Guide Prepared by Microsoft, Version 2.0.0.0 Last modified on 26 February 2010 Prepared by Microsoft TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 Executive Summary ..............................................................................................
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...AD Design Replication Scenario Since the two new branch offices will be directly connected to main office you can configure hub and spoke topology and configure the replication schedule as per requirement. I would also recommend in hub site to have minimum two DC for redundancy. In the event of failure if second DC does not exist irrespective of OS version AD replication will be down totally. At least in the hub site you should have additional DC if not present. The first rule of Active Directory design is keeping it simple. Active Directory is very flexible. So flexible that you can design an Active Directory forest that is complex beyond imagination. All Windows Server 2003/08 R2 supports the Active Directory containers of forest, domain, site, and organizational unit (OU). With the only real restriction of one forest per namespace, you can deploy as many domains, sites, and OUs as you deem necessary. To run a replication topology in multisite network, it should be run off of Inter site Topology Generator. This will allow you to replicate between the two new offices. There are three attributes to control the behavior of replication traffic over the site link: cost, schedule, and frequency. Assigning a cost to a site link object allows the administrator to define the path that replication will take. The schedule of the site link object determines when the link is available to replicate information. A site link’s frequency determines how often information will be replicated...
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...following scenario: a. Ten (10) departments in a 1,000-employee organization b. Equal separation by geography c. Use a common data center of twenty (20) backend enterprise servers 2. Analyze the functional problems of throughput, delay, and packet loss as it pertains to your plan. 3. Analyze and explain how you would use DNS in your plan. 4. Compose a two-paragraph executive summary highlighting the main points of your plan. 5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. 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; 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 page length. ANSWER: Lakisha Mason Dr. Hossein Besharatian CIS 505 February 7, 2014 Assignment 3: Elastic and Inelastic Traffic 1. Outline a plan for the development of an addressing and naming model in an environment of the following scenario: ◦Ten (10) departments in a 1,000-employee organization Most often, real-world Active Directory deployments...
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...NT1330 Unit 4 Assignment 1. AD Design Replication Scenario AD Design Replication Scenario To whom it may concern: I am the IT Administrator for the company and I have been asked to give my recommendations for the Active Directory Replication Design of the two new Branches. The first I can recommend for you is that all the information that is needed for each new site is correctly documented and added to the Root Active Directory through the Active Directory sites and services. This is done because the Root AD automatically builds the inter-site replication topology based on the information provided about the new site connections. Each new site’s AD will have one each domain controller that is known as the inter-site topology generator and they are assigned to build the topology at their sites. To add two new branch offices we will need to find a strategy to design a replication process. To implement this we will need to use inter-site replication. Inter-site replication is needed when adding domain controllers located in different sites. We will also need a site link (Site link is a logical, transitive connection between two sites that allows replication to occur) protocol of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) over Internet Protocol (IP) which is the preferred choice for the replication process. This allows you to communicate with network services on various computers and also keep data secure when being transmitted by using both encryption and authentication...
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...never if it fails rather when it fails. “Regardless of how bulletproof the design is, how fault-tolerant the system, or how well trained the operators and technicians, system failures are still possible.”(Witt, 2009) In the event the system does fail either by, disk failures, administrative errors, natural disasters, or unauthorized changes to data, a recovery plan must be in place to minimize downtime. In the scenario as described for Kudler Fine Foods, there would be a backup drive at each location, where daily backups of data will take place and those backups will be stored on a tape drive that way information is not lost at any time and stored offsite. The files would be stored off site in the event there is a natural disaster or fire or some other catastrophic event to take place that actually destroys the servers and hard drives, the tape drives being stored offsite preserves the data once a new server is in place. Data redundancy is a key aspect to recovering from such system failures. In the case of restoring Active Directory Directory Services in the event of data loss or system failure, there are several utilities within Active Directory that can assist with the recovery of system settings: * Windows includes the very basic NTBACKUP utility, which can be used to perform a system state backup of a DC. The system state of a domain controller includes its registry, SYSVOL, Active Directory DIT files, and critical system files. *...
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...Unit 9 Assignment 1 GPO Planning Scenario To Junior IT Admin: You can use Windows Server 2008 Group Policy to manage configurations for groups of computers and users, including options for registry-based policy settings, security settings, software deployment, scripts, folder redirection, and preferences. Group Policy preferences new in Windows Server 2008, are more than 20 Group Policy extensions that expand the range of configurable policy settings within a Group Policy Object (GPO). In contrast to Group Policy settings preferences are not enforced. Users can change preferences after initial deployment for information about Group Policy Preferences. By using Group Policy, you can significantly reduce an organization’s total cost of ownership. Various factors such as the large number of policy settings available, the interaction between multiple policies, and inheritance options can make Group Policy design complex. By carefully planning, designing, testing, and deploying a solution based on your organization’s business requirements, you can provide the standardized functionality, security, and management control that your organization needs. Overviewing Group Policy; it enables Active Directory–based change and configuration management of user and computer settings on computers running Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP. In addition to using Group Policy to define configurations for groups of users and computers, you can also use Group...
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...NT1330 Unit 7. Exercise 1. AD OU Planning Scenario Review the following scenario: As an IT Administrator, you have been tasked with designing an Active Directory Domain Organizational Unit Structure for a new AD implementation at an existing organization. You are scheduled to meet with the management team and need to formulate a list of questions you will need answered in order to recommend an OU Structure appropriate to the organization. Develop a list of 5-10 questions to guide your design plan. 1.) How is the existing structure of the organization? 2.) How many departments will there be? 3.) How many sub-departments will be needed? These questions will help in documenting the existing structure of the organization so as to divide the administrative tasks into categories and document the administrators who are responsible for each category. Also, these will define the hierarchy of authority in the directory as well as what departments the company will have. 4.) What are the company’s physical/geographical sites? This will address the issue of different geographical divisions which will probably have different computer management needs. The design will be based on management of resources, users and geographical boundaries. This will make the administration easier. 5.) How many OUs will be needed within each Parent OU? 6.) Will departments need to share resources? 7.) What resources are required by each department? 8.) What group policies to be implemented and who’s...
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...Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Judith Che Strayer University of Maryland Author Note Judith Che, Strayer University of Maryland. Any questions regarding this article should be address to Judith Che. Strayer University Maryland, White Marsh, MD 21085. Company’s today relay on good networking in order for their business to grow and succeed. A system engineer requires the ability, knowledge, and skill to plan and manage today’s networking which faces an ever-increasing variety of applications. We need to be skilled and informed to manage a network running Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Present day networking administrators have difficulties ensuring that network resources are available to users when access is needed and securing the network in such a way that available resources are accessible to the proper user with the proper permission. We will have to solve networking problems including troubleshooting, configuration, installation, administration, and managing element. Starting from choosing the best Windows Server 2003 Edition that will meet the company’s needs in terms of price, performance and features; work group woes, name resolution nightmares and DNS name conflicts to server security. These problems can be solved with proper planning, managing, and designing a day-to-day administration of an Active Directory domain within their Windows Server 2003 network environment. We predict that implementing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory will beat and exceed...
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