Testlet: Northwind Traders
You need to recommend a solution for improving the automated deployment of servers. The solution must meet the company’s technical requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Case Study Title (Case Study):
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Northwind Traders is an import/export company that has a main office and two branch offices. The main office is located in Toronto. The branch offices are located in Vancouver and Seattle. The main office has 2,000 users. Each branch office has 500 users.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All client computers run Windows 7 Enterprise. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. All new servers are deployed by using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
Northwind Traders has multiple Hyper-V servers. The Hyper-V servers are managed by using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
The perimeter network contains a standalone server. The server has the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) service role installed. AD LDS is administered on the server by using the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.
All virtual machines (VMs) access iSCSI-based storage by using a Microsoft iSCSI Initiator installed on the VM.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named northwindtraders.com.
The forest contains five Remote Desktop servers. All Remote Desktop servers are in an organizational unit (OU) named RD Servers.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Northwind Traders must meet the following technical requirements:
. Minimize server downtime.
. Ensure that you can recover all of the data hosted on the VMs.
. Ensure that you can perform bare metal restores of the Hyper-V servers.
. Minimize the number of times a server restarts when it is deployed.
. Monitor the CPU utilization, memory utilization, and disk utilization of all the servers to analyze performance trends.
. Ensure that a specific set of Group Policy settings are applied to users who use Remote Desktop to connect to the Remote Desktop servers. The settings must differ from those applied when the users log on locally to their own computers.
. Copy a custom Microsoft Office Word dictionary to the computers in the legal department. Update the custom dictionary on a regular basis. Copy the updated version of the dictionary as soon as possible to the legal department computers.
A. An offline domain join
B. Native-boot virtual hard disks (VHDs)
C. Offline servicing of images
D. Online servicing of images
