Server Operating System

Running head: SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM
Server Operating System
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Identification of server roles need..............................................................................................2
Identification of functions that the roles provides and justification of requirements................6
Design for server configuration.................................................................................................8
Justification of the decision for the design development...........................................................8
Skills for critical thinking and problem solving.........................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The report is prepared for Tetrahedron Theatre located in Sheffield which have need
to update their current network infrastructure. For the development of the report the network
services are needed to be identified that can be implemented on the Windows Server for the
management of roles and responsibility of the user. The organization have the requirement to
centralize the management and allowing the user to access the network files easily from
remote location. A shared storage space is needed to be configured for each of the department
and the access right is needed to be provided to the members of the department by
configuring group policy. There is a need to configure the group policy and security settings
such that the unauthorised access is prevented and network is secured.
Identification of server roles need
The following four roles are needed to be deployed in the two servers available with
Tetrahedron theatre such as:
A. Active Directory –
Functionality
The main functionality of the active directory is to configure the server as a
domain controller and authenticate, authorize and manage the user groups centrally. It
acts as a distributed directory and user for controlling the domain (Sundar and Kumar
2016). The users are authorized and authenticated and security policies are enforced
for the management of authorization and authentication.
Roles
The active directory is used for checking the password for the determination of
the user if he is a normal user or have the administrative privilege. It is used for
managing and storing information for the establishment of framework and deploying

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related service. The information about each of the user are stored and the serving
running the service is also known as domain controller.
Justification
The active directory is configured such that authentication and authorization is
maintained for all the users who uses the computers. It also helps in enforcement of
security policy for the computers connected in the network and installation and
updating the software. The storage and management of information is important and it
also provide authorization and authentication mechanism for establishing a
framework and deployment of the related services such as Rights management,
lightweight directory, Domain services, etc.
B. DHCP –
Functionality
It is used for the simplification of administrative tasks with the assigning of IP
address, Subnet mask, default gateway to the hosts connected in the network. It is a
network management protocol used for the needs of network administration and
elimination of the needs of manually assigning IP address in the network (Alvarez et
al. 2017).
Roles
The DHCP service is enabled in the server for enabling dynamic allocation of
the IP address and having a centralized management on the network. A pool of Ip
address is maintained by the server with the client information and parameters used
for configuration (Xu et al. 2015). If there is a change in the network address it can be
managed centrally by changing the pools and automatically updating the IP address
for the client connected in the server.
Justification