CIS408 and CIS409 paper
CIS 408.
Assignment 3:The Wild Frontier, Part 3
Due Week 8 and worth 80 points
Thanks to the great IT support the IT team provided, Wild Frontier is expanding even more. Each of the original four (4) satellite offices have doubled in size and four (4) more offices are being opened. The current licensing seats have managed to cover all of the existing personnel, without full utilization but the new demand will overtax them. The owner, Sam Yosemite, gets all fired up if he can’t allocate costs fairly according to use. You also need to make the existing printers cover the additional personnel use without buying new printers, even though the managers have to print off long documents several times each week to provide shooting targets for Sam.
Also, some users have been accessing applications and media services they do not need and the IT team needs to curtail this. The budget given for the increased staff is not sufficient for new desktops for each user. Additional storage needs have been identified in the original four (4) satellite offices, as well as some slowdowns in performance. These need to be addressed along with the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Analyze how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work.
- Create a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario.
- Propose a solution that will address the:
a. Additional storage needs.
b. Slowdowns in performance.
c. Consideration of Terminal Services Licensing.
- Use Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
- Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
- Include charts or diagrams created in Excel, Visio, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, and configure Windows SharePoint Services.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, and configure Windows Media Services.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in application server development.
· Write clearly and concisely about application server development using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
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Points: 80 |
Assignment 3:The Wild Frontier, Part 3 |
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Criteria |
Unacceptable Below 60% F |
Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D |
Fair 70-79% C |
Proficient 80-89% B |
Exemplary 90-100% A |
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1. Analyze how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely analyzed how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Insufficiently analyzed how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Partially analyzed how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Satisfactorily analyzed how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Thoroughly analyzed how using Windows SharePoint Services will help meet many of the criteria for providing support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
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2. Create a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely created a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. |
Insufficiently created a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. |
Partially created a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. |
Satisfactorily created a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. |
Thoroughly created a plan to meet the printer requirements specified in the scenario. |
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3a. Propose a solution that will address the additional storage needs. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletely proposed a solution that will address the additional storage needs. |
Insufficiently proposed a solution that will address the additional storage needs. |
Partially proposed a solution that will address the additional storage needs. |
Satisfactorily proposed a solution that will address the additional storage needs. |
Thoroughly proposed a solution that will address the additional storage needs. |
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3b. Propose a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletely proposed a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. |
Insufficiently proposed a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. |
Partially proposed a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. |
Satisfactorily proposed a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. |
Thoroughly proposed a solution that will address the slowdowns in performance. |
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3c. Propose a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletely proposed a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. |
Insufficiently proposed a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. |
Partially proposed a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. |
Satisfactorily proposed a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. |
Thoroughly proposed a solution that will address the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing. |
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4. Use Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length. Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Insufficiently used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Partially used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Satisfactorily used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Thoroughly used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
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5. Three (3) references Weight: 5% |
No references provided |
Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. |
Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. |
Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
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6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10% |
More than 8 errors present |
7-8 errors present |
5-6 errors present |
3-4 errors present |
0-2 errors present |
Technical Paper: Planning an Application Server Migration
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
Imagine you are working for a large international purchasing company that has just bought a growing local company that manufactures western wear at several locations (it’s a group of cottage industries; remember from the other scenarios that it now has eight (8) satellite offices, four (4) large and four (4) small ones). The previous owner, Sam Yosemite, tells his IT team to provide support and information to your IT staff to help with the transition to your forest domain. Gathering information from the other writing assignment descriptions, decide the best ways to bring the “Wild Frontier” network into your domain, “Foghorn Leghorn” and migrate to your current standards.
The business acquisition is largely superficial and the existing personnel structures will remain in place. You have to bring the “Wild Frontier” under the “Foghorn Leghorn” domain and make sure production needs are met at all the satellite locations. Your budget is fairly generous due to allocated funds for the transition, but will likely be much more constrained in the future. Take maintenance costs (both money and man-hours) into consideration as you design your solutions.
The same design requirements specified in the writing assignments (support, hours of operation, remote staff, Internet access, and sensitive file access) still apply, but disk space management is no longer as much of a concern and being part of a large company brings economies of scale to licensing purchases; take advantage of these. Department cost allocation is even more of a priority. Providing shooting targets (large paper reports) for Sam is no longer a need (the managers celebrate).
Workstations will all be standardized and provided with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Use those to your best advantage for standardization and support staff man-hour savings while still addressing control over users’ access of unapproved media services and applications.
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page technical paper which covers the following:
- Suggest how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices.
- Determine how application pools will help to reduce costs. Be specific in your configuration specifications.
- Formulate how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access.
- Evaluate how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work.
- Examine how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs.
- Propose how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations.
- Provide a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible.
- Determine what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements.
- Use Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
10. Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
The following specific course learning outcomes are associated with this assignment. Bear these in mind when planning and designing your proposed solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, and configure application servers and file servers.
· Compare and contrast among the different types of application servers.
· Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, configure, and secure IIS services and Web applications.
· Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, configure, and secure remote desktop and terminal services.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan, deploy, and configure Windows SharePoint Services.
· Compare and contrast among the different types of high-availability technologies.
· Create an application server migration plan for a proposed business solution.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in application server development.
· Write clearly and concisely about application server development using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
- Include charts or diagrams created in Excel, Visio, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
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Points: 200 |
Technical Paper:Planning an Application Server Migration |
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Criteria |
Unacceptable (Below 60% F) |
Meets Minimum Expectations (60-69% D) |
Fair (70-79% C) |
Proficient (80-89% B) |
Exemplary (90-100% A) |
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1.Suggest how to use
Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and
support for the remote offices. |
Did not submit or incompletelysuggested how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices. |
Insufficientlysuggested how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices. |
Partiallysuggested how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices. |
Satisfactorilysuggested how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices. |
Thoroughlysuggested how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices. |
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2.Determine how application pools will help to reduce costs. Be specific in your configuration specifications. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletely determined how application pools will help to reduce costs. Did not submit or incompletely specified your configuration specifications. |
Insufficiently determined how application pools will help to reduce costs. Insufficiently specified your configuration specification. |
Partially determined how application pools will help to reduce costs. Partially specified your configuration specification. |
Satisfactorily determined how application pools will help to reduce costs. Satisfactorily specified your configuration specification. |
Thoroughly determined how application pools will help to reduce costs. Thoroughly specified your configuration specification. |
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3.Formulate how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletelyformulated how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. |
Insufficiently formulated how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. |
Partiallyformulated how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. |
Satisfactorilyformulated how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. |
Thoroughlyformulated how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access. |
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4.Evaluate how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletelyevaluated how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Insufficientlyevaluated how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Partiallyevaluated how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Satisfactorilyevaluated how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work. |
Thoroughlyevaluated how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work |
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5.Examine how you can use high- availability technologies to manage costs. Weight: 5% |
Did not submit or incompletelyexamined how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs. |
Insufficiently examined how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs. |
Partiallyexamined how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs. |
Satisfactorilyexamined how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs. |
Thoroughlyexamined how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs. |
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6.Propose how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletelyproposed how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. |
Insufficientlyproposed how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. |
Partiallyproposed how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. |
Satisfactorilyproposed how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. |
Thoroughlyproposed how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations. |
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7.Provide a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletelyprovided a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. |
Insufficientlyprovided a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. |
Partiallyprovided a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. |
Satisfactorilyprovided a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. |
Thoroughlyprovided a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible. |
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8.Determine what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. Weight: 5% |
Did not submit or incompletelydetermined what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. |
Insufficientlydetermined what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. |
Partiallydetermined what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. |
Satisfactorilydetermined what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. |
Thoroughlydetermined what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements. |
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9. Use Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Insufficiently used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Partially used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Satisfactorily used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
Thoroughly used Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. |
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10. 5 references Weight: 5% |
No references provided |
Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. |
Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. |
Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
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11. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10% |
More than 8 errors present |
7-8 errors present |
5-6 errors present |
3-4 errors present |
0-2 errors present |
CIS 409
Assignment 2: Managing a Merger
Due Week 10 and worth 140 points
Imagine you work for Quality Corporation (Quality.ad) who has just recently bought Crescent Inc. (Crescent.ad) in a recent merger. Quality and Crescent have separate offices in St. Louis (Quality HQ), Little Rock, and Austin (Crescent HQ). Crescent also has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Santa Fe. The desire is to establish trusts between the two (2) AD forests and consolidate core services (DNS, DHCP, etc.) as soon as possible. Both companies are running Server 2012 as Domain Controllers. Their primary DNS, DHCP, and Domain Controller servers are in the two (2) corporate headquarters with secondary servers located in the other cities to reduce latency.
For the Quality.ad domain, the Flexible Single Master Operation (FMSO) roles are located on Server01, which is located at the Quality HQ. For the Crescent.ad domain, the FSMO roles are located on RWDC01, which is located at the Crescent HQ. In addition, the Quality.ad domain has several servers configured as a Certificate Authority, and the Crescent.ad domain has a single Certificate Authority.
During this acquisition, you will need to consider the following:
- The Crescent Inc. has developed several enhancements for the widgets that your company produces. The engineering documents are installed on the ServerDocs located at the Austin office. You will need to configure the necessary systems so that the engineers from Quality Corporation can access these documents. Since these documents are considered proprietary and highly confidential, you must ensure that no other users except the two (2) engineering teams can access these documents and that the documents stay within the company.
- For both organizations, all user IDs and digital certificates from the other organization must be recognized.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains.
- Suggest a method for consolidating Core Network services.
- Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Describe, manage, and install Active Directory replication, federation services, and certificate services.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan an advanced AD, DHCP, and DNS solution.
- Describe and plan for configuring a domain and forest as well as configuring trusts.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced network infrastructure environments.
- Write clearly and concisely about advanced network infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
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Points: 140 |
Assignment 2: Managing a Merger |
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Criteria |
Unacceptable Below 60% F |
Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D |
Fair 70-79% C |
Proficient 80-89% B |
Exemplary 90-100% A |
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1. Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Weight: 30% |
Did not submit or incompletely explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. |
Insufficiently explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. |
Partially explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. |
Satisfactorily explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. |
Thoroughly explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. |
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2. Suggest a method for consolidating
Core Network services. |
Did not submit or incompletely suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. |
Insufficiently suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. |
Partially suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. |
Satisfactorily suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. |
Thoroughly suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. |
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3. Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. Weight: 30% |
Did not submit or incompletely provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. |
Insufficiently provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. |
Partially provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. |
Satisfactorily provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. |
Thoroughly provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. |
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4. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10% |
More than 8 errors present |
7-8 errors present |
5-6 errors present |
3-4 errors present |
0-2 errors present |
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Rating:
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Solution: CIS408 and CIS409 paper