Windows Server 2008

[abi90no]

Hello people!

 

I'm studying network security and management in norway. I have a school project i just cant get my head wrapped around, and I hoped someone here could help!

 

Here is the assignment:

 

"I'm the network administrator for a large norwegian company Firma2.local, and now we are about to largely expand into 5 new branch offices. Moscow (subject of oslo), Sydney, Tokyo (subject of Sydney), New York and Los Angeles (Subject of New York). When I say subject of I mean IT purposes is controlles by.

 

In the US Firma2.local has purchased companytwo inc. This company has one forest (companytwo.local) consisting of a tree with root-domain and two underdomains (ny.companytwo.local, la.companytwo.local). Each have their own IT management, NY controlls the root-domain. Internet via Oslo.

 

In Australia the company has purchased 2mates corp. in sydney. The firm uses Red hat enterprise. The workstations uses suse with openoffice.

 

Moscow and tokyo are newly established. IT in moscow is controlled by oslo, and tokyo by sydney.

 

The CRM and finance system is common for the whole company. The application is located in Oslo, but management wants the easiest way to deploy these to all the locations."

 

Now for my question. I can figure out most of this, but my main problem is the most important. How many forests, domains and sites should there be? and what is the best way to set this up by the points mentioned above?

 

And if it's not a hassle, what is the best way to migrate from Red Hat enterprise to windows server 2008, enabling us to keep AD settings?

 

Please mail me at : august.ingvaldsen@gmail.com, or just post a comment here.

 

Thanks in advance. =)

[ICTCity]

Mhhhh I don't think this is a big problem...

 

1 forest:

FIRMA2

 

and inside this forest you can create sub-domains:

oslo, sidney, ... and each of them contains moscow or tokyo, ...

 

The second forest is:

COMPANY 2 Inc

 

and here you can put NY and LA (sub domains).

 

Then it's up to you... you can create another forest and put FIRMA2 and COMPANY 2, it depends on what you have to from one domain to the other.

 

 

I don't understand this part:

"Each have their own IT management, NY controlls the root-domain. Internet via Oslo."

 

 

Regarding Red Hat, well... you first need to know WHY they're using red hat, and because of this is a project, I think you can't migrate from red hat to WS2k8.

 

let me know.

[abi90no]

Mhhhh I don't think this is a big problem...

 

1 forest:

FIRMA2

 

and inside this forest you can create sub-domains:

oslo, sidney, ... and each of them contains moscow or tokyo, ...

 

The second forest is:

COMPANY 2 Inc

 

and here you can put NY and LA (sub domains).

 

Then it's up to you... you can create another forest and put FIRMA2 and COMPANY 2, it depends on what you have to from one domain to the other.

 

 

I don't understand this part:

"Each have their own IT management, NY controlls the root-domain. Internet via Oslo."

 

 

Regarding Red Hat, well... you first need to know WHY they're using red hat, and because of this is a project, I think you can't migrate from red hat to WS2k8.

 

let me know.

 

Thank you so far :)

 

What I mean is that NY controlls the root domain and subdomain for NY, and LA controlls the subdomain for LA. They each have a IT department. Internett access is through Oslo, if u understand :)

 

Well, and for Red Hat, we arent supposed to document the migration actually, cus we havent had about linux server systems yet. But i allways want to impress :P

[ICTCity]

Ok, so my scenario should work fine.

 

Be sure to "set up" the correct permissions for domain admins and delegates!

 

I'm not sure if this will work or not... but you can sync red hat with MS:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.1/html/Administration_Guide/Windows_Sync.html

 

Then once everything has been synced, you should be able to connect your clients to the new MS server...

 

Cheers

[abi90no]

thanks so much man! :D

[ICTCity]

Glade to help you :)