ABC Company's Workgroup to Domain Transition
James M. Ghastin
ISSC340 Local Area Network Technologies
American Military University
Abstract
The ABC company has been doing extremely well in the app development market. Consumers are downloading the most recent game developed for Android phones at an extremely fast pace. With the success of both this year's game and last year's game, ABC company has had to hire new employees and expand. Part of this expansion, is the requirement to manage both users and equipment in a better way than the old model. Security for the network needs to be addressed as well as a better way for data to be shared and backed up. Software and operating systems need to be the same version so employees …show more content…
Active Directory is a Windows Server service that holds a database of objects and manages different them; computers, users and groups as well as other servers and printers. This service can be used for a large number of functions and can solve many of the current networking problems. With Active Directory groups of users can have their logon passwords changed at one time or have specific requirements set for password length and complexity. Printers can be automatically assigned as well as mapped drives based off of specific groups created by an administrator. Firewall settings can be assigned per department/branch or can be setup for company wide policies. USB drives can be blocked and unauthorized access can be tracked. Files and folders can be stored on the server versus the users machine which would enable roaming profiles, the user would be able to login at any desk and have access to his or her data. The user would have one login which would give access to Windows as well as Email and other …show more content…
The other main cost will come from the antivirus software and server operating systems. The requested operating systems are Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Each group on the network will have specific applications that are requested and those will be stored on the application server and available to any group with the proper access. Licenses will be purchased for each user that requires access to keep costs lower. Using this method will enable users to have the most sought after software while keeping it only stored on one machine. The application server is also capable of doing the logic for the individual workstations. While this increases the load on the application server it decreases the cost of having each individual computer doing the processing and allows ABC company to buy cheaper workstations ultimately saving
James M. Ghastin
ISSC340 Local Area Network Technologies
American Military University
Abstract
The ABC company has been doing extremely well in the app development market. Consumers are downloading the most recent game developed for Android phones at an extremely fast pace. With the success of both this year's game and last year's game, ABC company has had to hire new employees and expand. Part of this expansion, is the requirement to manage both users and equipment in a better way than the old model. Security for the network needs to be addressed as well as a better way for data to be shared and backed up. Software and operating systems need to be the same version so employees …show more content…
Active Directory is a Windows Server service that holds a database of objects and manages different them; computers, users and groups as well as other servers and printers. This service can be used for a large number of functions and can solve many of the current networking problems. With Active Directory groups of users can have their logon passwords changed at one time or have specific requirements set for password length and complexity. Printers can be automatically assigned as well as mapped drives based off of specific groups created by an administrator. Firewall settings can be assigned per department/branch or can be setup for company wide policies. USB drives can be blocked and unauthorized access can be tracked. Files and folders can be stored on the server versus the users machine which would enable roaming profiles, the user would be able to login at any desk and have access to his or her data. The user would have one login which would give access to Windows as well as Email and other …show more content…
The other main cost will come from the antivirus software and server operating systems. The requested operating systems are Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Each group on the network will have specific applications that are requested and those will be stored on the application server and available to any group with the proper access. Licenses will be purchased for each user that requires access to keep costs lower. Using this method will enable users to have the most sought after software while keeping it only stored on one machine. The application server is also capable of doing the logic for the individual workstations. While this increases the load on the application server it decreases the cost of having each individual computer doing the processing and allows ABC company to buy cheaper workstations ultimately saving