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Chapter 5: The Retail-Based Company
Savill Games is one of the premier US game retailers with over 5,000 stores nation wide in the United States, and has three main bases to which all the retail outlets are connected. A small office in the UK controls some interests in companies abroad.

The current point-of-sale (or POS) system is running on MS-DOS and is being refreshed with a system that runs under Windows XP in a highly locked-down state but must be a member of an Active Directory domain to function. The current dial-up modems are also being replaced with a leased line, always-on network.

We are told that the company is running Active Directory on Windows 2000 along with Exhange 2000. The company will be upgrading to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003, and we must deliver the infrastructure to handle the 20,000 new workstations that will be joining our AD infrastructure (each store averages to four machines).

No new hardware is available for the existing infrastructure. However, additional hardware is budgeted for, to handle the new store infrastructure requirements.

• Chapter 5: The Retail-Based Company
• Discovery
• Domain, Forest, and Trust Discovery
• Types of Trusts
• Sites, Subnets, and Site Links
• Domain Controller Placement, FSMO, and GC Structure
• Identify FSMO Role Holders
• Identify Global Catalogs in the Forest
• Final Current View
• DNS Infrastructure
• Active Directory Usage and Enhancements
• Objects in Domains
• Discovery Management
• Design
• Site Links
• Exchange 2000 Schema "Feature"
• The London and Stores Requirements
• Domain Controller Placement
• DNS
• Upgrade
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Performing the Upgrade
• Post-Upgrade Tasks
• Summary

BOOK DETAILS   Paperback, 375 pages Released: January 2005 ISBN: 1904811086 Authors: John Savill

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1: The Importance of a Domain
2: The Small Accountancy Firm
3: Step-By-Step Migration
4: The Regional Legal Firm
5: The Retail-Based Company
6: The International Financial Company
Index
 

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