Wingtip Toy's Migration of Network Infrastructure from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008

Wingtip Toy's Migration of Network Infrastructure from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008

Introduction

Any company or organization may need the business skills of its personal for the development and expansion in the business. However, it is also essential that the company or organization maintains and manages all the internal aspects and matters. Some of these include the proper management of employees, labor force, finances and other important factors that constitute an overall organization. However, the most important element that needs to managed is the past and current, data, records and details of the company. In addition, the company should also make sure that the computer and network system in the organization is fast, efficient and effective. This is to ensure that the processing speed of the computer system is high and also that the network system is ensuring that effective communication is promoted, planned and implemented within the office. Hence, companies all over the world have been adapting various sophisticated and effective programs and plans to achieve this aim.

Discussion

Similarly, the Wingtip toys have decided to adapt a major change in the implementation of a sophisticated computer and network system that will ensure security and protection of both the data and the overall system. Therefore, Wingtip toys have decided to migrate from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server to 2008 for achieving these aims. However, the company will have to conduct a SWOT analysis for evaluating the effectiveness of the Windows Server 2008.

SWOT Analysis

The SWOT analysis will help the Wingtip Toys to identify the strong and weak areas of the company. Therefore, the company should implement the strengths to further create the opportunities and use them to deal with all the future threats.

Strengths

The biggest strength of the Windows Server 2008s is the fact that a number of Microsoft application can be installed, used and run through it. These include Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010.

The 2008 versions of the Microsoft server also has the ability to run through it the most latest Microsoft applications that includes, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013,Word 2013 and, Outlook 2013, as opposed to the Microsoft server of 2003.

The Microsoft, for the scheduled tasks, uses a VB6 exe. The exe is used to identify the location of various types of files from the server, starts properly the Word files, format the files properly, even save them in the form of a PDF. This is another important and significant advantage that the server 2008 enjoys over 2003. The excel, power point and MS office applications that the server 2008 supports in turn will offer the users these applications stuffed with much greater variety of features in terms text, pictures, tables etc.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 will also offer its users the opportunity to experience the “Vista Desktop Style” (Sivarajan, 2012).

Hyper-V is undoubtedly the most appreciated feature of the 2008 version of Windows Server. The biggest advantage of the feature ...