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Case Study: 15
Proseware, Inc
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Proseware, Inc. is a publishing company that has a main office and a branch office. The main
office is located in New York. The branch office is located in Sydney. The main office has
5,000 users. The branch office has 1,000 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Proseware plans to deploy a new 64-bit Application named App2 to 10 users in the branch
office. Only members of the local Administrators group can run App2. Proseware is
evaluating whether to deploy virtual desktop pools. The virtual desktop pools must meet the
following requirements:
• Apply the settings in GPO1 to the virtual machines (VMs).
• Prevent the VMs from receiving the Automatic Updates settings from GP02,
• Ensure that only the host VM is affected if a virtual hard disk (VHD) file becomes
corrupt.
• Minimize the amount of storage used to support the VMs.
• Minimize the amount of memory and CPU resources used by the VMs.
• Minimize administrative effort.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. All of the client
computers in the main office run Windows 7. All of the client computers in the branch office
run Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 (SP3). All of the client computers in the main
office are configured as Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Visualization (MED-V) and Microsoft
Application Virtualization (App-V) clients. A two-node Hyper-V cluster is deployed in the
main office. The cluster uses Clustered Shared Volumes.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named proseware.com. The
functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2008. The relevant organizational units
(OUs) for the domain are configured as shown in the following table.
A custom Group Policy object (GPO) named GPO1 is linked to the domain, GPO1 contains
corporate computer security settings. A custom GPO named GP02 is linked to both office
OUs. GP02 contains Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) settings.
Existing Network Infrastructure
Each office has servers that have the following server roles or role services installed:
• WSUS
• Hyper-V
• File Services
• Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access)
• Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host)
• Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host)
• Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker)
REQUIREMENTS
Technical Requirements
When users interactively logs on to any of the client computers in the branch office, they
must automatically receive the local administrator rights to that computer. When users logs
off, they must lose the administrator rights. The disk space on all file servers must be
monitored. If any file server has less than 20% free disk space on a volume, a script must run
that deletes temporary files.
Problem Statements
The main office has a shared folder named Legal. The Legal share is only accessed by users
in the legal department. Legal department users report that it takes a long time to locate files
in the Legal share by using keyword searches.
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You need to recommend a monitoring solution for the file server that meets the technical
requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
A.
Data Collector Sets
B.
File Server Resource Manger quotas
C.
File Server Resource Manger storage reports
D.
NTFS disk quotas
Explanation:
There’s some debate about the answer to this one. is it A or B? concensus is pointng to A: data
collector sets Probably the most relevant info is that we must run a script when running out of free
space.NTFS quota doesn’t have this service., FSRM Storage reports are just that reports so that
leaves us with A or B
Microsoft Self Paced Handbook:
You can also add performance counter alerts to DCSs. This enables you to monitor a counter and
detect an alert, which you can then use to start a batch file, send you an email, or call you on a
pager. For example, if you configured an alert to trigger when free space on a logical volume falls
below 30 percent, you could add this to a DCS and use it to trigger a batch file that archives the data
on the volume.
Data Collector Sets
http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771692%28WS.10%29.aspx
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.