Windows Server Deployment Proposal

The report is prepared for proposing a Windows Server deployment requirement, service and features that would help the company “We Make Windows” to gain competitive advantage. The configuration of DNS and DHCP server is analysed that is needed for increasing the efficiency of the organization. The application and service, file and printer sharing requirement for allowing the users to access the resources is also evaluated for the configuration of the network.

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Windows Server Deployment Proposal
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Network Diagram.......................................................................................................................2
New Features of Windows Server 2016.....................................................................................2
Deployment and Server Editions...............................................................................................3
Active Directory.........................................................................................................................5
DNS and DHCP.........................................................................................................................6
Application Services..................................................................................................................7
File and Printer Sharing.............................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The report is prepared for proposing a Windows Server deployment requirement,
service and features that would help the company “We Make Windows” to gain competitive
advantage. The company have a requirement of hiring new staffs for different location of the
organization and configuring the internal IT services configured. The administration of the
system is necessary for the management of the core IT services and implementing a right
solution for fitting the business needs of the organization. For the development of the
network solution an analysis is made on the number of users for each of the department and
the features of Windows Server 2016.
Network Diagram
New Features of Windows Server 2016
There are different new features of Windows Server 2016 that can help “We Make
Windows”, to gain competitive advantage of the organization.
The feature of storage space direct helps in building a storage cluster that is highly
available and dependent on the same storage space technology. For the increasing the
availability of the storage device the participating nodes should be provided with access to

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the storage through JBOB array (Yamato, 2017). For enabling multi initiator support SAS
drives should be included in the JBOD array.
The introduction of the storage replica feature helps in removal of the constraint of
point to asynchronous replication of virtual hard drives in Windows server 2016. The
deployment of Windows Server 2016 helps in replicating entire volumes at the block level
and synchronous or asynchronous replication can be selected depending on the requirement
(Thomas, 2017). It can be applied for the management of disaster and backing up data for
eliminating the risk of failure and development of a failover plan. It have support for server to
server and cluster to cluster replication.
It have enhancement for the network and helps the enterprise and hosts to merge
traffic and reducing the networking interfaces needed for communicating with the hosts
(Hicks, 2016). The packet direct feature of Windows Server 2016 helps in reducing the
workload on the network and focuses on small as well as large data transfer.
Deployment and Server Editions
A total of four physical servers would be needed for the management of business
operation for the Los Angele and New York Sites. Two servers are needed to be installed in
the Los Angeles branch while the other two is needed to be installed in New York branch.
The servers are needed to be virtualized for configuring different services and meet the
requirement of the user.
Windows server 2012 R2 Datacentre is needed to be installed as the server OS for
enabling virtualization and configuring the different services for the management of different
business operation.

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The server cores are needed to be shared with the virtual machine and Hyper V is
needed to be installed such that the roles and management of the server is easily carried out
(Sequeira, 2017). Sufficient amount of resources should be available for serving the needs of
the user.
The servers are needed to be deployed in Los Angeles and New York and named as
LA_Server1, LA Server2, NY_Server1 and NY Server2. The following service and roles
should be configured for each of the servers.
LA_Server1
 DHCP
 Active Directory
 Active Directory certificate Services
 DNS
 File and Storage Services
 Print and Document Services
LA_Server2
 Remote Desktop Services
 Active Directory
 Active Directory Rights Management Services
 Web Server (IIS)
 Streaming Media Services
 Windows Update Services
NY_Server1
 DHCP

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 Active Directory
 Active Directory certificate Services
 DNS
 File and Storage Services
 Print and Document Services
NY_Server2
 Active Directory
 Active Directory Rights Management Services
 Windows Update Services
 Web Server (IIS)
 Streaming Media Services
 Remote Desktop Services
Manual configuration should be used for the configuration of the server and it should be
documented such that the document can be used in future for troubleshooting the errors in the
configuration and management of changes in requirement.
Active Directory
A single active directory domain should be used for the organization and it is needed
to be divided into multiple domain with the growth of the organization depending on the
location of the site (Sharapov, 2016). A forest architecture can be applied for diving the
domain and it should not have any controllers configured with read only as there are four
active directory domain controllers used for the two different location of the network.
Since the site has more than one domain controller domain controller is needed to be
restarted and domain hierarchy should be used for synchronizing the time. A group policy

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should be configured for configuring inter site replication and management of the access of
the server and resources of the network.
DNS and DHCP
DHCP scopes are needed to be defined for increasing the availability of IP address to
the client and it should be configured following the IP addressing plan of the organization.
The scopes are needed to be activated before the availability of IP address in the network
(Dimov & Tsonev, 2018). There are different fields that re need to be defined such as:
Name and Description – The pool should be named with the name of the department
for easier management of the network.
Lease times – The lease duration is need to be defined for configuring the time which
is allowed for the clients to use IP address without renewing. Longer duration is
recommended for the scopes since it is a static network.
Number of scopes – For each of the VLAN different scopes should be used and the
VLANs should be created depending on the number of departments.
Address Range – It should have the starting Ip address for each of the subnet and
listing the entire range address for the destination IP (Verdecchia et al., 2017). It should have
the subnet mask for defining the unit length and the decimal notation for the subnet mask.
DHCP fault tolerance is needed to be implemented and a range of IP address should
be excluded such that it does not overlaps with the IP address used for configuring the
interface of the network device.
DHCP reservation is needed for configuring the servers with static IP address and
avoid conflicting of DHCP address with the servers connected in the network.

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The DNS namespace that should be used for the configuration of the domain is
needed to be identified and it is suitable to use the name of the organization and registered on
the internet. Different namespace can be used for the internal and external domain and the
active directory is needed to be configured as an immediately subordinate to the parent
domain in the DNS namespace (Heikkilä, 2015). Separate servers is needed to be used for
internal and external names and the external names should consist of names that is needed to
be visible on the internet. The internal domain should be configured only for internal use.
Application Services
A distribution point is needed to be created for publishing and assigning the computer
program using the server. The server is needed to be configured to create a shared folder for
keeping all the installer packages of the application program (Sequeira, 2017). Permission
should be set for allowing the access to the group of users.
The active directory user is needed to be configured and group policy should be
configured for its application in the security group and management access of the user.
File and Printer Sharing
File and printer sharing is needed to be enabled in the server for allowing multiple
host connected in then network for accessing one or more printer. Here, each of the host
connected in the network needs to print content and get files from different location in the
network (Palmer, 2017). The files generated from the production department is needed to be
stored in the shared folder of windows server and group policy should be configured for
sharing it with the users of finance department.
Conclusion

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From the above report it can be concluded that the advantages of the implementation
of Server 2016 is analysed for its deployment and requirement for creation of active directory
and management of its configuration. The configuration of DNS and DHCP server is
analysed that is needed for increasing the efficiency of the organization. The application and
service, file and printer sharing requirement for allowing the users to access the resources is
also evaluated for the configuration of the network. A network policy is developed for the
management of the usage of network and sharing resources to the user for increasing the
security of the network framework. A network diagram is created for the demonstration of
the location of installation of the Windows Server and management of the application service.
A group policy is developed and the diagram is created with the inclusion of components of
active directory, DNS or DHCP, file share hierarchy and other components of the server that
helps in understanding the design proposed for the organization.

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