| Scenario 2-3: Planning a Migration
You are an IT consultant working with a mid-sized corporation to improve its network. Currently the company is running six Windows 2000 servers in three separate domains. The workstations run various versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. Several new Windows Vista Business machines are being used by management. The company has decided to migrate to Windows Server 2008 using Active Directory to take advantage of centralized administration and better security. To help you consult with your customer, answer the following questions.
1. What considerations should you make during the migration planning?
Operating system level of current servers and workstations in the existing Active Directory environment.
2. What recommendations will you make?
Perform a complete inventory of all existing domain controllers, and document scheduled plans to upgrade or replace domain controllers that are running legacy operating systems.
3. What functional level should be set initially?
Windows 2000 Native at the domain and forest functional levels
Scenario 2-4: DNS Naming
The same client discussed in Scenario 2-3 already has a DNS name registered with the Internet. The client uses it for the company's Web site, which allows customers to access the product database and place orders online. Your client would like to use the same name for its internal network, but you have been advised that using the internal network may affect network security. What options would you suggest they explore to allow some naming consistency while providing internal network security?
You can configure the internal domain name using the .local extension rather than .com, .net, or .org to separate your internal from your external namespace.
2-
| 