Phase 1 – Individual Project
Colorado Technical University
IT140-1304B-04: Introduction to Operating Systems and Client/Server Environments

Table of Contents

Introduction to Operating System 3
Project Organization 3
Windows 3
Linux 5
Virtualization 6 Components of a Computer System 8 Managing Client – Server Environments 9 Securing Operating Systems 10 System Administrators 11 Configuring Windows 7 and Linux+ Prep LabSim Toolkit 12
Phase 1 LabSim 12 References 13

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Introduction to Operating System
Project Organization
ACME is a pharmacy based healthcare provider that has 25 physical locations across the state of Michigan. The company provides long term patient care to the community mental health organizations across the State of Michigan. The organization is an industry leader in a clinical pharmacy services and has grown tremendously over the past 10 years. The organization is privately held and the senior leadership team as well as the centrally managed and support IT infrastructure is located at a single headquarter facility.
ACME’s network is comprised primarily of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers, Windows 7 and Windows XP workstations, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for messaging, Microsoft SharePoint server for intranet support and Microsoft SQL server as the database platform. The company also utilizes QS1 Data Systems as its primary patient care system and DocuTrack as the document management system. The ACME network is a spoke and hub topology with the headquarter building being the hub. The majorities of the company’s core resources are hosted at hub/headquarter location making it much easier to centralize the technical support efforts. The complexity and variety of the technologies in use at ACME make this organization ideal for the anticipated project objectives for this class and thus the reason why I chose this