Windows Server Networking

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Windows Server Networking
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Introduction
This document is a proposal for a technology proposal for Fixing Windows LLC
corporation on the best systems and tools to use to ensure their new technology project is done
within the scope, budget and meets the criteria established in the request for proposal. The key
items to be considered by the proposal include, scalability, data security, remote access, and
distributed across the various branches of the company in cities of LA, Houston, and Dallas.
The document is divided in section with each section detailing the proposal to implement
the given network service and requirements to meet the requirement stipulated in the request for
proposals document. The first section proposes how DNS and DHCP shall be implemented, The
second section details the proposal of how the file services are to be implemented. The third
section discusses the proposal on how the remote connection services are to be implemented for
the company as requires in the request for proposal document. The last section shall discuss the
concepts of high performance and software-defined networks which are critical for the
management to understand in a bit to implement this proposal.
DNS and DHCP
DHCP is a critical network service that ensures hosts gets assigned IP addresses
dynamically. It must, therefore, be designed in a most redundant and easy to manage manner.
The DHCP server services will be added to Windows server 2016 server roles so as the services
be enabled. Once the services are enabled, it must be authorized otherwise no IP will get
distributed. Due to the remote location involved in the network design, the DHCP authorization
will be left for the domain controller by installing the role of DHCP in the Domain controller

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(Yoo, 2013). This was, the process of the authorization will be automatic hence more flexible for
other business processes and technology that may be added to the network
The DHCP scope is important to be defined so as to provide an admin group for
administering the various subsets of the company. The following table represents a proposed
scope design (Meisner, Gold, & Wenisch, 2011)
Name Desc Range
start
Range End Length Mask Lease
time
Primary_dhcp Houston
DHCP
172.30.2.1 172.30.2.254 24 255.255.255.0 24 hours
Secondary_dhc
p
Dallas
DHCP
172.30.3.1 172.30.3.254 24 255.255.255.0 24 hours
The business impact of having the secondary scope defined is to act a fail-safe in case the
primary scope is not usable hence the DHCP server shall search for the backup scope, ensuring
the client remains connected hence more revenue for the business (Luthy, 2011).
The following represent address space that shall remaining reserved hence not allocable
by the DHCP server.
Reservation
Name
Description IP Adress
range start
IP address
range end
Length Subnet
vmsReservation Range of
IP
addresses
that are
reserved
for use by
the servers
and virtual
machines
172.30.1.1 172.30.2.254 24 255.255.255.0

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The technological importance of reserving the IP range is to ensure the server and virtual
machines have static IP addresses assigned to them. This is important for server management and
remote access. The business importance of having the reservation is to ensure core business
functions that involve access to the server such as file transfer, remote access, and printing shall
continue to operate normally even with if the DHCP server is down for some reasons or another.
The static IP assigned to sever makes administration of the server much easier (Limoncelli,
2011).
IP address management is key for the central management of IP addresses networks,
especially larger networks. The server whose are to be assigned IP addresses shall be done from
the following IPAM table which shall be implemented (Labs, 2018)
Utilization Overlappin
g
Network Start IP
address
End IP
address
Access
Scope
Virtual