This assignment is a continuation from the Week Three assignment.
Management at Westlake Olive has decided to diversify their product range by producing whole olives as well as olive oil. For financial reasons, this product will be sold by a separate company, Westlake Produce.
Your team must now configure and administer a new domain, westlakeproduce.local across both sites.
Write a 1-page memo to management detailing the exact steps that your team will need to perform in order to create the Active Directory domain. Include the following information:
- Steps needed to create sites
- Steps needed to create 10 users per location
- An estimate of the number of hours required to create the new domain
- An estimate of the cost of the project based on a standard rate of $25 per hour
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Use the following scenario for the Week One through Four individual assignments:
You are the IT Manager for Westlake Olive, a large producer of olive oil. While Westlake Olive produces only one product, they have dominated the industry and doubled in size the last five years.
As the IT Manager, you are ultimately responsible for the configuration and administration of all servers, network infrastructure, and end user laptops and desktops. Your team consists of:
- A Systems Administrator
- A Network Administrator
Westlake Olive has two facilities: a production facility in Denver, Colorado, and a corporate headquarters in Sacramento, California. Each location has the following technology:
Denver, Colorado. The olive oil production facility has:
- 5 Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V® hosts running 25 Windows 2012 R2 guests
- 45 Windows 10 laptops and desktops
- A 1 Gps connection to the organizations MPLS network
Sacramento, California. The olive oil company’s Corporate Headquarters has:
- 2 Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V® hosts running 7 Windows 2012 R2 guests
- 5 Windows 10 laptops and desktops
- A 1 Gps connection to the organizations MPLS network
Your team has previously configured network services between the two locations using the MPLS network, and the westlakeolives.local domain has already been established. It is now your team’s responsibility to configure and administer advanced services for the domain and respond to managements requirements.