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A Report On Several Server Roles For A Professional Environment And Justify The Requirement For Them

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I am going to write a report on several server roles. I will explain the features these roles serve in a professional environment and justify the requirement for them. The AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) is a server role used for security, scalability and management of users and server resources. The AD DS works by collecting, storing and managing sources of information and data on network. The server that utilises the AD DS role is known as a Domain Controller. The use of AD DS on a server, would be for the major aspect of manageability in AD DS to separate the different elements there is a network this can be such things as users and computers. These element can then be structured into different areas by the use of different domain forest, individual domains inside the forest and then organisational units. The purpose of using AD DS in a professional environment would be to organise and make the network secure. We can organise our users and computer in to organisational unit which we can then set file and folder paths also we can give people read and write access on certain files and folders in a user area we can also have the OU’s linked the different group policies giving certain users or computers different features or functions. The DNS or the Domain Name Server is a resolution protocol, this system is used for naming clients and network services. DNS is used in TCP/IP networks, it is used by resolving alphanumeric names in to IP addresses. When we require

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