Introduction
This paper enlightens the plan to deploy the Windows Server 2012 in Worldwide Advertising Inc. in an effective manner. The plan also incorporates the effective configuration and implementation of Windows infrastructure to support the work processes of the company. The company wants to keep pace with the technological requirements due to which the decision of deploying Windows Server 2012 is incorporated to provide the company with the technological sustainability for next two to three years. The company will be operating at two sites, Los Angeles and New York, due to which the integrated deployment of the system will be incorporated to support the work processes at both sites.
Deployment and Server Edition
The company aims to improve its work processes in order to make them efficient and integrated at both locations, i.e. Los Angeles and New York. The Standard Edition of Windows Server 2012 will be deployed due to its cost efficiency which will help the company to maintain its budget constraints due to the lack of available capital. The Standard Edition will also support the company to increase the number of servers operating in the company (Minasi et al., 2013). It is inferred that the majority of staff will be located at Los Angeles which eventually directs that majority of the servers will be managed at the site of Los Angeles. The total of servers will operate the work processes in Worldwide Advertising Inc., out of which 7 servers will be operated from Los Angeles, whereas 3 servers will be operated from New York.
The prevalence of Server Core will be incorporated to ensure the reliability and security of servers in such manner that the access of critical information across departments will be restricted. These servers will be deployed automatically by the remote use of image files using the Windows Deployment Services (WDS). The company has 300 employees, who will be provided with the operating systems in order to carry out their work related responsibilities due to which the remote installation is suggested to make the installation process time efficient. Therefore, the installation of Windows Automatic Installation Kit (AIK) will take place to support the answer files that will be comprised of Windows System Image Manage (SIM). In this way, a master computer will be used to deploy the system across all the operating systems (Minasi et al., 2013). The combined server roles for Worldwide Advertising Inc. are as follows:
Active Directory
Each site will be provided with two domain controllers and the Main Domain Controller will be incorporated at Los Angeles, however, Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) will be incorporated in New York. In this way, it will help in controlling the unnecessary traffic due to the availability of RODC at the side in New York. Moreover, the implementation of Active Directory – Integrated Zones will take place replicate DNS traffic by using the Active Directory. The parent domain will be named as WWAI.local and the child domains will be named as LA.WWAI.local and NY.WWAI.local. The child domains will help in the characterization of the sites located at Los Angeles and New York, respectively (Desmond et al., 2008).
The organizational units will be developed and will represent the departments and employees from the sites located at Los Angeles and New York. The organizational units will encompass the Executives, Creative, Accounts and Sales, Human Resources, Finance, Media and Production, IT and Users. The group scope of the company will be made global due to the company’s operations incorporated at two different sites, i.e. Los Angeles and New York. The configuration of NTFS and Share Permission will be incorporated to restrict the data of finance department from being accessed from other departments. The Administrator will be authorized to restrict and share the data by using the permission changes for other departments and users (Desmond et al., 2008).
DNS and DHCP
Relay agents and Hybrid DHCP infrastructure will be incorporated to enhance the efficiency of the system by means of time and cost. There will be one main and one back DHCP will be generated and maintained at Los Angeles, whereas the maintenance of relay agents will take place at the site located in New York. In this way, the traffic from the WAN link will be decreased which will eventually increase the efficiency of the work processes. The IP addresses will be allocated automatically by using iPV4 because it provides consistent security and is flexible in nature. It also possesses the large routing capability, however, it can also limit the prevalence of IP addresses and hence, automation in the allocation of IP address is considered to address this issue (Komori & Saito, 2002).
The fault toleration of DHCP will be addressed by encompassing the scope splitting 80/20 configuration. In this manner, the address range will be from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.1.200, however, the exclusion will range from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.90 at main DHCP. The configuration of the relay agents will take place at the site New York to boost threshold which will enable the DHCP clients to obtain IP addresses from local servers. The configuration and testing of Hybrid DHCP will require two to three hours and due to the prevalence of time efficient system, it will require only one system administrator to complete its configuration (Komori & Saito, 2002).
Home Folders will be provided to the clients to support the private storage, however, SharePoint will be used as a shared folder to facilitate the sharing and collaboration among the clients. The shared files will be split between both servers at each site due to which the development of four servers will take place. The local file services at the both sites will support the tolerance under the possible failures of WAN link. It will help in decreasing the WAN traffic and help in the synchronizing the file system to provide enhanced accessibility to the updated files. Remote Differential Compression (RDC) and DFS replication will take place for the effective synchronization of data which will help in restricting the data transmission due to the enhancements in the system files (Suralkar et al., 2013).
The unified directory and backup consistency will be ensured by implementing the Distributed File Services (DFS). Moreover, the prevalence of a domain-based DFS will increase the data availability at multiple servers. The conventional method of namespace root will be used that will be named according to the private files and shared folders or usernames. The first initial of name along with the five letters from the last name will be used for developing the account names which will eradicate the prevalence of duplication in account names and will help in identifying the users in an effective manner.
The file Server Resource Manager will be used to monitor the mechanism of file storage at the both sites. Every client will be provided with the maximum limit of 1 GB storage, whereas the storage quotas will be monitored by the auto-generated notifications. In this manner, the clients will be notified about their storage availability and will manage the storage accordingly. The File Screens will be configured using the shared and private folders which will also help in saving the executable files. Remote Desktop will be used to facilitate the print mechanism and hence, the network-attached printed will be configured at both sites.
Group Policy
The Microsoft Systems Management Services (SMS) will be used to install the server based applications and the prevalence of SMS will be incorporated on the basis of its ability to work by consuming low bandwidth. The hardware requirements of SMS is also less than other systems and the program offers the user-friendly licensing mechanism and supports the power saving function. The applications will be distributed by using the Intranet Web Access via port 3389. The installation of IIS 7.0 will take place to support the remote installation process. MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, Inuit Quick Books, MS Access, MS Outlook and Adobe Creative Suite will be installed to support the work processes of the clients (Minasi et al., 2013).
Hyper – V
The prevalence of the virtual machines (VMs) will be incorporated to facilitate the virtual computing environment to the clients. It will ensure the effective sharing of the data available at the virtual drive or virtual hard disk and hence, it will support the remote availability of data at the both sites situated at Los Angeles and New York. The resizing mechanism of the hard disk will be ensured, whereas the administrators will be provided with the ability to increase the storage limit as per their needs and departmental requirement. The integration of services will also take place at the both sites because the clients will be able to work in an integrated manner. It will support the formal communication in the organization due to which the work processes will become more efficient. The export of data will be facilitated, which will be comprised of large media files, and considering the advertising business of the company, these media files will be transferred and shared in an effective manner. In this way, the file sharing mechanism will be made cost and time efficient which will increase the overall efficiency of the organization.
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