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Active Directory : The Backbone Of Every Organization

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Active Directory is the backbone of every organization. A crash of your AD could cause loss of productivity, excessive man hours to troubleshoot and rebuild and loss of data. With that in mind we want to make sure that we have enough domain controllers set up for fault tolerance.
We will deploy three Active Directory servers. The two main domain controllers will be located at the Los Angeles office and the RODC will be located at the New York office. The RODC is a read only domain controller that will provide active directory services without the security risk. The RODC will create a fault tolerance so if both of the main office DCs fail the data will still be available on the RODC. If the RODC fails the data will still …show more content…

The DHCP scope design will involve 2 DHCP servers at the Los Angles site and 1 DHCP server at the New York site. All of the DHCP servers will be put into failover load balance mode. All of the DCHP servers will be configured in load balance mode. With this set up if one server fails the other will take over. If they are all working properly then they will share the load balance. A scope with the address range of 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.110 will be created.
DHCP reservations will be used for all servers within both sites so they will get the same IP address every time. This will speed up the response time from the server and make sure that users will not have any issues finding the servers. The lease times will be in the default 8 day increments to ensure that there will be plenty of IP addresses available at all times. Deploying the DHCP servers should take approximately 3 hours with two system administrators. 1111
DNS servers map domain names to IP addresses. If DNS were to fail the users would have a hard time connecting to any websites. There will be one server located at each site. By having one server at each site the chances that both will go down at the same time is low. This will provide fault tolerance and thus making sure that the clients will have access to websites. Using an internal private domain the DNS name space design will include la.wai.localhost as the parent and ny.wai.localhost as the child. Split DNS will be set up with

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