This assignment is a continuation from the Week Three assignment
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Each grocery location at Ray’s Food has a Windows Server® 2012 R2 server but no domain services are used. Management would like to extend the Windows® domain at the corporate office to the three grocery locations, but they are afraid the cost of this would be excessive.
Provide management with a 2- to 3-slide PowerPoint® presentation that outlines how you would add the three grocery locations to the corporate office domain raysfoods.local.Include estimates of how many hours the domain extension will take and how many hours each month it will take to manage and maintain Active Directory®. Include speaker notes on all slides. You must also include information on the following topics:
1. Distributed File System Configuration (DFS)
2. VPN and Direct Access
3. Domain Configuration and Maintenance
Individual Assignment Instructions: Configuration Scenario
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Task
Use the following scenario for the Week One through Five individual assignments:
Ray’s Food is a small independent grocer operating three grocery outlets throughout the city of Seattle, Washington. You are the organization’s sole network administrator, and it is your responsibility to configure and maintain all network, server, and end user hardware.
Each of the three grocery locations includes the following technology:
4 Point of Sale terminals running Windows® 10
2 Windows® 2012 R2 servers
A 1.5 Mbs T1 connected to the corporate office
In addition to the three grocery locations, Ray’s Food also has a corporate office. The corporate office technology includes:
5 Windows® 2012 R2 Servers running the following services:
Ray’s Food billing and sales applications
DNS
DHCP
Domain Services
File Services
10 Windows® 10 Desktops
3 1.5 Mbs T1 connections from the grocery locations
A 20 Mbs internet connection
To purchase products for the grocery locations, Ray’s Food also utilizes buyers who work either at home or at the vendor’s locations. Each buyer has a Windows 10 laptop and a cellular internet connection
Your task is to validate and administer the technology located at the corporate office and integrate the grocery locations and buyers with the rest of the organization.
