System Management

Assessment - Enterprise Network system management by the installation, configuration and management of Domain Controllers (DC).

Purpose of the assessment - The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with system management experiences to address the need of modern organisations. After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:

a. Apply standard and emerging tools and techniques for system management.
b. Develop and configure server architecture within the context of constantly changing modern industry requirements.
c. Manage servers and resources to support enterprise information systems
d. Install, configure, monitor, test, troubleshoot and manage various servers for an organisation.

Assignment Description

Choose one (1) scenario from the list given below, and carry out the following tasks:

1. Identify required configurations for your chosen scenario, and perform the configurations using either virtually or physically installed OS to realise the scenario. Students can use Windows Server 2008.

2. Prepare a detailed system documentation report of the configurations using description of each step, and screenshots of your configurations. This report will serve as an important part of backup and disaster recovery documentation for the organisation given in your chosen scenario, and can be used for training new IT staff in the organisation.

3. This is due on Week-11 on moodle.

This report should contain the following:

1. Clear identification of what technology/features will need to be configured in order to realise your chosen scenario.

2. The important steps of how the scenario was implemented/configured with each technology/features that you have identified, along with labelled screenshots.

3. Students must configure the domain using either his/her own name.

4. Students must create a simple webpage (using header tag only) to display the student ID , which shall be stored on and displayed from the created IIS (web server).

Scenarios (Choose one only):

Scenario 1: Local Area Network (LAN) to support Windows Server and Client Environment

TridentS is a software development company requiring the setting up of a LAN for their office located in Sydney. They have four departments: Developers, Marketing, Operations, and Finance. All objects (e.g., users, computers, etc.) belonging to these departments need to be created within their respective OU for their own department. TridentS requires the following technologies to be implemented within their LAN: 1)Centralised user authentication

2) Print server for users

3) All computers should acquire the IP addresses from a DHCP Server

4) TridentS needs to host a website, thus a separate IIS server is required

5) The company wants to store all the files on a separate file server and only users with appropriate access will be able to access them (not every user should have access to the files). You can assume which users/groups will have access to these files, and state your assumption clearly.