To: WSUK Networksystems Administrator Candidate

To: WSUK NetworkSystems Administrator Candidate

From: Network Support Team Manager.

Hello,

I need you to take a look at the Microsoft side of our proposed expansion project. Myself and the rest of the team are going to be kept busy with the configuration of the security, routers and switches and of course liaising with the ISP.

The basic idea is to provide connectivity for the first of four branch offices and one of the directors from his home. Because of the possibility of this all going horribly wrong in the short term (until we have all the wrinkles ironed out) I want you to create a solution using Oracle Virtual Box.

Using the addressing spaces detailed later in this email, you will need to create a number of subnets and allocate them to the appropriate network segments. Once this has been accomplished you will need to allocate the appropriate addresses to the interfaces on the computers that will make up the topology and then populate an instance of the corp.com domain with a number of user accounts and groups to simulate the real domain (You will need to inform the judges once you have made your calculations and filled in the information on the “Topology Diagram” provided elsewhere in this pack).

I need you to prepare a WordPad document (on your host computers desktop) containing screenshots of the effective permissions for each share and group listed below(You will need to ensure this is available to the judges to avoid the loss of any associated marks).

You will need to implement technologies appropriately using your own knowledge and experience to facilitate a successful solution that meets all of the requirements.

The virtual environment has been pre-populated with three Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 computers as well as two Microsoft Windows 7 workstations.

Take your time reading through all of the requirements below and plan your implementation strategy, remember an extra few minutes in the planning stage can save considerable time when it comes to implementing your solution.

The following table contains Computer, Interface naming and IP addressing information for the five machines in the topology (all capitalisation in names must be adhered to. Subnet zero is to be counted as the first subnet in all calculations):

The address blocks mentioned above are as follows:

The following user account and group information must be used to populate Active Directory:

In addition to the requirements already specified above, the following must be complied with:

1. The ISP’s infrastructure does not support IPv6 and as such the stack should be disabled on all ISP facing interfaces
2. Domain access must be configured for corp-HQ-ws2034 to participate as part of the corp.com.
3. corp-BO-RODC must be configured to be an RODC in the corp.com domain
4. corp-BO-RODC must be configured to route traffic between the BO-LAN segment and the Corp-WAN segments
5. corp-HQ-DC must be configured to be the root DC and DNS provider in the corp.com domain
6. corp-HQ-Gateway must be configured to be a DC and the site GC in the corp.com domain
7. corp-BO-RODC must be configured not to cache password information
8. corp-BO-RODC must be configured to be the GC for the site
9. corp-BO-RODC must provide secondary zone DNS services to the site and look to corp-HQ-DC for its primary zone
10. corp-HQ-Gateway must be configured to route traffic between the Corp-LAN and the Corp-WAN segments
11. corp-BO-WS001 must look to corp-BO-RODC for login authentication as part of the corp.com domain

You will need to create a number of shared folders to simulate the business activity on the network as follows:

That should be enough to get you started.

I’ll send you another email tomorrow with further instructions.