...gtei.net Address: 4.2.2.2 > set type=mx > bellcs.com Server: vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net Address: 4.2.2.2 Non-authoritative answer: bellcs.com MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = bellcs.com bellcs.com nameserver = ns2.server766.net bellcs.com nameserver = ns.server766.net bellcs.com internet address = 66.78.26.7 "Setting up a Basic DNS Server for a Domain." Setting up a Basic DNS Server for a Domain. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Aug. 2015. "Learn Exchange Server 2000: Setting Up DNS for Internet Access." RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Aug. 2015. Unit 8 Assignment 2 What benefits do you see in moving an organization to an Active Directory environment? Four Benefits of Moving an Organization to an Active Directory Environment: 1. Using an Active Directory environment gives a better representation of the network. The active Directory structure allows the possibility of a greatly centralized management of users no matter how large the client’s network has become. In Windows NT each domain is its own independent identity. Although it is possible to have...
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...[pic] Active Directory Benefits for Smaller Enterprises Microsoft Corporation Published: September 2004 Abstract Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD) has been available since early 2000, and while most organizations have completed their AD deployment and are realizing the many business benefits of having deployed Active Directory, there are still organizations that have either not completed their deployment or have yet to take advantage of some of the important features of Active Directory that yield the greatest business benefits. This whitepaper is designed to help small and medium-sized organizations understand the business advantages that can be realized quickly and easily through the use of Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory. This paper was written based on feedback from hundreds of business executives on the reasons they chose to migrate to Active Directory, and the ongoing benefits they have realized. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT...
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...| | Definition TRUE | | | Term When you want to grant a collection of users permission to access a network resource, such as a file system share or a printer, you can assign permissions to an organizational unit. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory is one of the easiest technologies to test because an isolated lab environment usually can emulate many of the factors that can affect the performance of a directory service. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term When you want to grant a collection of users permission to access a network resource, such as a file system share or a printer, you can assign permissions to an organizational unit. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory is one of the easiest technologies to test because an isolated lab environment usually can emulate many of the factors that can affect the performance of a directory service. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory was first introduced in which operating system? | | Definition Windows 2000 Server | | | Term Where do users log in when joining an Active Directory domain? | | Definition domain | | | Term There are two basic classes of objects in an Active Directory domain. Which of the...
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...Active Directory Benefits The biggest difference between these two server operating systems and Windows NT is the addition of Active Directory. Although there is a bit of a learning curve associated with implementing an Active Directory environment, the benefits of doing so far outweigh the negatives. A better representation of the network Centralization sums up my primary reason for implementing Active Directory. The Active Directory structure makes it possible for you to achieve truly centralized management of users, regardless of how big your client’s network has become. If you've worked with Windows NT before, you know that in Windows NT a domain is a completely independent entity. While it's possible to create a trust relationship between domains that exist on a common network, the domains are never truly integrated with each other because there is no higher authority that manages the domains. Seeing through the forest The situation is different with Active Directory. Whereas the domain level was the highest level of abstraction in Windows NT, the highest level of abstraction in Windows 2000 and 2003 Server is the forest, which is basically a collection of domains. Microsoft chose to call this unit a forest because you can place domains into the forest, and you can place entire trees of domains into it. A domain tree consists of a parent, child, grandchildren, and great grandchildren domains. You can have as many layers of subdomains within a domain tree as is necessary...
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...University of Phoenix Material Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment Select and complete one of the following assignments: Option 1: Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment Option 2: Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment (Graphical) Option 3: Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment (Advanced) Option 1: Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment Assume for this assignment that Kudler Fine Foods is running Windows Server® 2008 R2. The company has three locations, each overseen by a store manager. Each store manager has access to a desktop, a laptop, and a printer/scanner/fax machine. This equipment is authorized for use according to the following rules: • The desktop and laptop are authorized for use by the store manager, President Kathy Kudler ,and the president’s administrative assistant. • The printer/scanner/fax machine is authorized for use by the store employees where it is located, as well as President Kathy Kudler and the president’s administrative assistant. • The director of store operations can use any equipment in any location. Design group objects to implement group policies to manage access to these resources. Document the group design using the following table: Name Membership Type Scope Permissions During your work on the network operating system, you become concerned about threats such as disk failures, administrative errors, natural disasters, and the...
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...Active Directory Scenario: The small business that you created new domain controllers for now wants you to develop a backup and recovery plan for Active Directory. You also need to develop a monitoring scheme to ensure the new Active Directory environment remains available. Explain this backup and recovery plan along with the tools needed to monitor the active directory environment. Submission Requirements: Submit your response in a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document through the Questa Learning Plan. Evaluation Criteria: Your instructor will use the following points for evaluating your performance in this assessment: * Did you discuss a backup strategy or Active Directory? * Did you discuss a recovery plan for Active Directory? * Did you discuss a monitoring scheme for Active Directory? Windows Server Backup provides several Group Policy settings that give you some limited control over how backups work on your servers. With these backup policies, you can mitigate some of the risks associated with people performing unauthorized backups to obtain access to unauthorized data. The options include: Allow Only System Backup If this is set, Windows Server Backup can only back up critical system volumes. It cannot perform volume backups. Disallow Locally Attached Storage as Backup Target When enabled, this setting does not allow backups to locally attached drives. You can only back up to a network share. Disallow Network as Backup Target This setting does not...
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...Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) are a boon to all Windows Active Directory administrators for managing Active Directory Users, computers and groups easily and quickly. But with only the native AD tools, PowerShell, etc. administrators have to spend quite an amount of time in managing the Group Policy Objects. ADManager Plus is a web-based Active Directory Management and Reporting software that helps administrators in managing the Group Policy objects of multiple domains, with just mouse-clicks and UI based actions. This software also provide pre-built Group Policy (GPO) Reports to fetch Group Policy related information swiftly. This Active Directory management tool also helps in Microsoft Exchange Server Management and Reporting. With ADMnager Plus, in just a single click, administrators can: * Enable/Disable multiple Group Policies * Mass manage GPO links: Enable/Disable GPO Links, Add/Remove GPO Links * Enforce multiple GPOs / Make them Unenforced * Block or Unblock GPO Inheritance for any Domain/Organizational Unit (OU) Further, administrators can also get to know instantly, * The status of all the GPOs available in a Domain * All the Domains/Organizational Units (OU)/Sites that a GPO is linked to * All the GPOs that are linked to any specific Domain/OU/Site Enable GPOs / Disable GPOs With this feature, administrators can enable or disable all the required GPOs in any domain, in one single action instantly. Further, if needed, administrators...
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...where to place the Active- Directory Integrated DNS Servers and what type to use. One of the branch offices is very small and (5 users) and has a very slow network connectivity. Do I need a DNS Server and, if so, which type of zone should it hosts? The second branch office is much larger (about 30 users) and has better network connectivity. Does this office need a DNS Server and, if so what type of zone would you recommend? Response: Dear IT Admin; I really appreciate the opportunity to assist you in regards to implementing Active Directory & DNS Servers in your “Windows” environment. Let me start by saying that without DNS your network will more than likely not function because clients will not be able to resolve names to (IP) addresses, also DNS enables network devices such as printers and computers to communicate on the internet or locate one another within the organizations local network. Based on the given scenario, you have made an excellent choice of configuring the “Active Directory Integrated Zones” because Active Directory has the following benefits: Fault Tolerance – Redundant copy of DNS zone information can be stored on multiple servers. Security – DACL can be modified by specified user groups. Zones are Multimaster – zones can be updated in more than one location. Efficient Replication – Zone transfers are replaced by more efficient Active Directory replication. Maintain use of secondary zones – if needed. Note: Since Active Directory-Integrated Zones follow...
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...Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Judith Che Strayer University of Maryland Author Note Judith Che, Strayer University of Maryland. Any questions regarding this article should be address to Judith Che. Strayer University Maryland, White Marsh, MD 21085. Company’s today relay on good networking in order for their business to grow and succeed. A system engineer requires the ability, knowledge, and skill to plan and manage today’s networking which faces an ever-increasing variety of applications. We need to be skilled and informed to manage a network running Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Present day networking administrators have difficulties ensuring that network resources are available to users when access is needed and securing the network in such a way that available resources are accessible to the proper user with the proper permission. We will have to solve networking problems including troubleshooting, configuration, installation, administration, and managing element. Starting from choosing the best Windows Server 2003 Edition that will meet the company’s needs in terms of price, performance and features; work group woes, name resolution nightmares and DNS name conflicts to server security. These problems can be solved with proper planning, managing, and designing a day-to-day administration of an Active Directory domain within their Windows Server 2003 network environment. We predict that implementing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory will beat and exceed...
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...you set? 1. automatic private IP address 2. fixed IP address 3. static IP address 4. none of the above ques 6:- What is the minimum number of physical computers required to allow you to use a KMS key? 1. 20 Vista and ten Windows Server 2008 computers 2. 20 Vista and five Windows Server 2008 computers 3. 15 Vista and ten Windows Server 2008 computers 4. 25 Vista and five Windows Server 2008 computers Ques 7:- A striped volume uses which type of striping to interleave data across the disks? 1. Raid 6 2. Raid 4 3. Raid 0 4. Raid 5 Ques 8:- A computer running Server Core will allow you to launch which of the following consoles? 1. Computer Management 2. Active Directory Users and Computer 3. Windows Registry Editor 4. None of the above Ques 9:- BOOTP enables a TCP/IP workstation to retrieve settings for all of the...
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...applications to not run properly or at all, but worse, could create security vulnerabilities for the network. A static IP address allows other workstations on the network to easily keep track of the server. 4. Explore the netsh command menus. Record three commands that you can issue from the command line using netsh, and describe what each command does. 1. Exec- runs a script file 2. Add- adds a configuration entry to a list of entries 3. Online- sets the current mode to online Matt Carlson IT255.XM1.10WTR Instructor Vincent Tran January 9, 2010 Virtual Lab 2 1. When a child domain is installed and the parent domain is hosting an Active Directory–integrated DNS server that allows dynamic updates, are the SRV resource records of the child domain added automatically during Active Directory installation? Yes, they are added automatically during...
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...Riordan Active Directory Migration Tyler Dresslar POS 421 September 3, 2012 R.Chung Riordan Active Directory Migration Introduction With regards to Riordan Manufacturing acquiring new severs with Active Directory Technology, the company must look at migrating to Windows Server 2008 R2 in order facilitate the streamlining of work for the Information Technology Department. Moving to Active Directory will save Riordan TIME and MONEY, the benefits of such a move and implementation will be explained in the following paragraphs. Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services are the foundation for distributed networks built on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating systems that use domain controllers. Active Directory Domain Services provide secure, structured, hierarchical data storage for objects in a network such as users, computers, printers, and services. Active Directory Domain Services provide support for locating and working with these objects. Windows 2000 Server and later operating systems provide a user interface for users and administrators to work with the objects and data in Active Directory Domain Services. Network administrators write scripts and applications that access Active Directory Domain Services to automate common administrative tasks, such as adding users and groups, managing printers, and setting permissions for network resources. Independent software vendors and end-user developers can use Active...
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...Active Directory Design Guide Thursday, 25 February 2010 Version 2.0.0.0 Baseline Prepared by Microsoft Prepared by Microsoft Copyright This document and/or software (“this Content”) has been created in partnership with the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Intellectual Property Rights to this Content are jointly owned by Microsoft and the NHS in England, although both Microsoft and the NHS are entitled to independently exercise their rights of ownership. Microsoft acknowledges the contribution of the NHS in England through their Common User Interface programme to this Content. Readers are referred to www.cui.nhs.uk for further information on the NHS CUI Programme. All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. © Microsoft Corporation 2010. All rights reserved. Disclaimer At the time of writing this document, Web sites are referenced using active hyperlinks to the correct Web page. Due to the dynamic nature of Web sites, in time, these links may become invalid. Microsoft is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. Page ii Active Directory – Design Guide Prepared by Microsoft, Version 2.0.0.0 Last modified on 26 February 2010 Prepared by Microsoft TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 Executive Summary ..............................................................................................
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...Jason Wells NT 1230 Unit 8 Assignment 2 Active Directory Benefits Multimaster replication and sites One of the benefits of an Active Directory environment is the concept of sites and multimaster replication. In Windows NT, when you make a change to the SAM (Security Accounts Manager), the change is applied directly to the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and is later replicated to each BDC (Backup Domain Controller). In an Active Directory multimaster replication environment, each domain controller contains a copy of Active Directory, not just the information for a single domain. Therefore, when a change is made to Active Directory, the change is applied to whatever domain controller is the closest, and is then replicated to the remaining domain controllers. This prevents a designated PDC (Primary Domain Controller) from being overburdened. A better representation of the network Centralization sums up a primary reason for implementing Active Directory. The Active Directory structure makes it possible for you to achieve truly centralized management of users, regardless of how big the client’s network has become. In Windows NT a domain is a completely independent entity, and while it's possible to create a trust relationship between domains that exist on a common network, the domains are never truly integrated with each other because there is no higher authority that manages the domains. With Active Directory, this is possible. Organizational Structure The domain level...
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...Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment A group is a combination of users and computers with some authentication to control usage. The group is controlled by IT administrators who manage everything including users, data, and computers. At the time of creating a group, there are certain limitations that are set to decide who and how access will be delegated to a resource. With these limitations, it makes it very easy and effective to mitigate discrepancies as there are certain authentications to each user. There are two types of such groups that Microsoft Windows has: * Security Group * Distribution Group Distribution groups can be used only with email applications, such as Exchange to send email to user pools. Distribution groups are not security-enabled, which means that they cannot be listed in discretionary access control lists (DACLs). The resources on a network are secured via security groups. This group determines to give authentications and user permissions to reach the data on the Active Directory, and such groups give authentications to access the resources and are to be found on Discretionary Access Control Lists. The group can have a control that encompasses everything, can be limited to a certain extent or can be further narrowed down as well. It has a universal level of control that share data with every domain on the network. The Active Directory administrator can manage the groups as...
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