Managing a Merger

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Assignment 2: Managing a Merger

Imagine you work for Quality Corporation (Quality.ad) who has just recently bought Crescent Inc. (Crescent.ad) in a recent merger. Quality and Crescent have separate offices in St. Louis (Quality HQ), Little Rock, and Austin (Crescent HQ). Crescent also has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Santa Fe. The desire is to establish trusts between the two (2) AD forests and consolidate core services (DNS, DHCP, etc.) as soon as possible. Both companies are running Server 2012 as Domain Controllers. Their primary DNS, DHCP, and Domain Controller servers are in the two (2) corporate headquarters with secondary servers located in the other cities to reduce latency.

For the Quality.ad domain, the Flexible Single Master Operation (FMSO) roles are located on Server01, which is located at the Quality HQ. For the Crescent.ad domain, the FSMO roles are located on RWDC01, which is located at the Crescent HQ. In addition, the Quality.ad domain has several servers configured as a Certificate Authority, and the Crescent.ad domain has a single Certificate Authority.

During this acquisition, you will need to consider the following:

  • The Crescent Inc. has developed several enhancements for the widgets that your company produces. The engineering documents are installed on the ServerDocs located at the Austin office. You will need to configure the necessary systems so that the engineers from Quality Corporation can access these documents. Since these documents are considered proprietary and highly confidential, you must ensure that no other users except the two (2) engineering teams can access these documents and that the documents stay within the company.
  • For both organizations, all user IDs and digital certificates from the other organization must be recognized.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains.
  2. Suggest a method for consolidating Core Network services.
  3. Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Describe, manage, and install Active Directory replication, federation services, and certificate services.
  • Demonstrate the ability to plan an advanced AD, DHCP, and DNS solution.
  • Describe and plan for configuring a domain and forest as well as configuring trusts.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced network infrastructure environments.
  • Write clearly and concisely about advanced network infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the rubric.

Note: The assignment will be check for plagiarism.

The grading rubric for this assignment attached below.

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Assignment 2: Managing a Merger Imagine you work for Quality Corporation (Quality.ad) who has just recently bought Crescent Inc. (Crescent.ad) in a recent merger. Quality and Crescent have separate offices in St. Louis (Quality HQ), Little Rock, and Austin (Crescent HQ). Crescent also has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Santa Fe. The desire is to establish trusts between the two (2) AD forests and consolidate core services (DNS, DHCP, etc.) as soon as possible. Both companies are running Server 2012 as Domain Controllers. Their primary DNS, DHCP, and Domain Controller servers are in the two (2) corporate headquarters with secondary servers located in the other cities to reduce latency. For the Quality.ad domain, the Flexible Single Master Operation (FMSO) roles are located on Server01, which is located at the Quality HQ. For the Crescent.ad domain, the FSMO roles are located on RWDC01, which is located at the Crescent HQ. In addition, the Quality.ad domain has several servers configured as a Certificate Authority, and the Crescent.ad domain has a single Certificate Authority. During this acquisition, you will need to consider the following: • • The Crescent Inc. has developed several enhancements for the widgets that your company produces. The engineering documents are installed on the ServerDocs located at the Austin office. You will need to configure the necessary systems so that the engineers from Quality Corporation can access these documents. Since these documents are considered proprietary and highly confidential, you must ensure that no other users except the two (2) engineering teams can access these documents and that the documents stay within the company. For both organizations, all user IDs and digital certificates from the other organization must be recognized. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. 2. Suggest a method for consolidating Core Network services. 3. Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • • • • • Describe, manage, and install Active Directory replication, federation services, and certificate services. Demonstrate the ability to plan an advanced AD, DHCP, and DNS solution. Describe and plan for configuring a domain and forest as well as configuring trusts. Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced network infrastructure environments. Write clearly and concisely about advanced network infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the rubric. Note: The assignment will be check for plagiarism. The grading rubric for this assignment attached below. Points: 150 Criteria 1. Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Weight: 30% 2. Suggest a method for consolidating Core Network services. Weight: 30% 3. Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. Weight: 30% Assignment 2: Managing a Merger Unacceptable Meets Minimum Expectations Fair Exemplary Below 60% F 60-69% D 80-89% B 90-100% A Did not submit or incompletely explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Insufficiently explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Insufficiently suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. Partially explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Partially suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. Satisfactorily explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Satisfactorily suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. Thoroughly explained the key considerations behind establishing trust relationships between the two (2) domains. Thoroughly suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. Insufficiently provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. Partially provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. Satisfactorily provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service Thoroughly provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service Did not submit or incompletely suggested a method for consolidating Core Network services. Did not submit or incompletely provided a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating duplication of service wherever possible. 70-79% C Proficient 4. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10% More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present wherever possible. 3-4 errors present wherever possible. 0-2 errors present
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Trust between Two Domains
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Considerations behind establishing a trust relationship between the two domains
This is the trust set up between the two areas that empower clients in one space to be
validated by alternate areas controller. There exist a few trusts like External, domain and
alternate route. The trust that I will discuss is the outside trust that can be connected to AD
forests and the related expenses. This trust is vital when clients from two distinct spaces need to
get to similar assets and document server of the two areas. For a trust relationship, the different
domains are termed to as trusted domain and trust domain. For this case, the Quality Corporation
should establish the trust domain in the entire relationship, while Crescent Inc. is where the other
domain should be established so as to access network resources. For this practice to be effective,
there are a number of considerations which must be put into practice;
Authentication thought
There are three sorts of confirmation that react diversely to the bury put stock in sort. The
trust licenses with no validation of get to needed for all clients default validation for outer
component that identified with trusts. The backwoods wide validations additionally permit
unhindered access by any client default verification for forests trust. At last, the concrete
validation confines access to an outer verification setting and should be physically empowered.
Through the windows server, verification occurs vi9a the use of the following trust procedures:


Manager protocol- it ids used when only one computer in the trust relationship doesn’t

function appropriately.


Kerberos version 5- protocol is mostly used when devices in trust are operating the server

2012 domain controller.

TRUST BETWEEN TWO DOMAINS

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Managerial benefit
The following thing that one needs to consider in making trust between the two spaces is
the official benefit as one has to a director with a full expert to convey changes, an establishment
with abnormal state framework access in both areas. Both space controllers ought to pi...


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