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Case Study: 11
Nothwind Traders
Scenario
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 App1ied to users who use
Remote Desktop to connect to the Remote Desktop servers. The settings must differ from
those App1ied 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.
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You need to recommend a solution for monitoring the servers. The solution must meet the
company’s technical requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
A.
Data Collector Sets (DCSs)
B.
event subscriptions
C.
Reliability Monitor
D.
Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)
Explanation:
http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771692%28WS.10%29.aspx
Data Collector Sets An important new feature in Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor is the
Data Collector Set, which groups data collectors into reusable elements for use with different
performance monitoring scenarios. Once a group of data collectors is stored as a Data Collector Set,
operations such as scheduling can be applied to the entire set through a single property change. You
can schedule repeated collection of a Data Collector Set to create logs, load it in Performance
Monitor to see the data in real time, and save it as a template to use on other computers.
Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor also includes default Data Collector Set templates to
help you begin collecting performance data immediately.