Active Directory

Active Directory Infrastructure

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Active Directory Infrastructure

Introduction

The paper aims to research Active Directory to discuss a design for a Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure based upon the requirements of a particular scenario. The scenario involves a company, called Techo Designs, which sells electronic equipment online and has two offices, one in Southampton and the other about 20 miles away in Portsmouth. The paper aims to present a diagram of solution as the Active Directory structure of the company.

Part 1: Structure of the CompanyA Company called Techo Designs, which sells electronic equipment online, has two offices, one in Southampton and the other about 20 miles away in Portsmouth. The company has 8 departments as follows: Sales, Marketing, Design, Information Technology (IT), Accounts, Corporate Management, Human Resources and Distribution. Southampton is the head office where 50 Sales staff are located, 40 Marketing staff, 20 Design staff, 30 IT staff, 36 Accounts staff, 30 Corporate Management staff, and 20 Human Resources staff. Portsmouth is a distribution center where a further 30 Sales staff, 10 Marketing staff, 6 Corporate Management staff, and 50 Distribution staff are accommodated. The Corporate Management staff includes a Managing Director at the head of the company, supported by a board of 6 directors and various secretaries, all based in the Southampton office. Each department has a departmental manager in charge of that department, and each departmental manager has an assistant. There is a network administrator within the IT department. The two sites work closely together and the staff at the two offices shares resources on the network, such as databases, printers, etc., for example members of the Sales department at both offices share the same database. The files to be shared on the network will be of sales, marketing, corporate management and distribution department only as there is no IT, accounts, design and HR department in the Portsmouth's distribution center.

Organizational Hierarchy

Part 2: Scenario In Relation To Active Directory The Techo Designs Company has two offices, one in Southampton and the other about 20 miles away in Portsmouth. The Southampton office is the company's headquarter, while Portsmouth is the distribution center. However, both offices of the company shares sales, marketing, distribution and corporate management staff. The staff of these departments needs to share information on daily basis regarding sales, marketing, distribution and corporate management operations. This information can be made available through sharing of networks and creating an Active Directory infrastructure based on the information sharing requirement of the company.

Active directory (AD) is a Microsoft's directory service for Windows domain networks. It is an online data base of resources, providing a central location for security and network administration. It can be subdivided into one or more domains. Domain controllers are the Windows server operating systems that run Active Directory. This directory service keeps track of all users and their security passwords in an organization.

Object

The structure of Active Directory is a hierarchal arrangement of information about objects, where an object could be a resource or a security ...