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Case Study: 4
Lucerne Publishing
Company Overview
Lucerne Publishing is a large publishing company that recently purchased a company named
Contoso, Ltd.
Physical Locations
Lucerne Publishing has a main office located in Seattle.
Existing Environment
Active Directory Environment
The network contains two Active Directory forests named lucernepublishing.com and contoso.com.
The forests are configured as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Case Study Exhibits button.)
All of the domains in both of the forests contain domain controllers that run Windows Server 2003
R2.
All of the domain controllers are configured as DNS servers.
Lucernepublishing.com contains a single Active Directory site.
Network Infrastructure
The network infrastructure of Lucerne publishing.com contains the following servers and
applications:
• An enterprise root certification authority (CA).
• A Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 organization.
• Thirty servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2. The servers have the following
configurations:
• The servers have the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server role installed,
• The servers provide access to several line-of-business applications.
• Only 10 of the servers have a line-of-business application named App2 installed. App2 is
incompatible with the other line-of-business applications.
Requirements
Business Goals
Lucerne Publishing has the following business goals:
• Minimize software costs.
• Minimize the amount of administrative effort required to deploy new technology solutions.
Planned Changes
Lucerne Publishing plans to implement the following changes:
• Deploy Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) to the lucernepublishing.com
forest.
• Deploy a new line-of-business application named App5 on the Remote Desktop servers.
App5 will use Remote Desktop IP Virtualization.
• Deploy 150 wireless access points (WAPs) that support Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 security
running in Enterprise mode (WPA2-Enterprise).
• Migrate several users from contoso.com to lucernepublishing.com. The migrated users must
continue to have access to the resources in the contoso.com forest.
• Open a new branch office that will have a read-only domain controller (RODC) in the
contoso.com forest. The new branch office will connect to the Seattle office by using a WAN link and
will have a direct connection to the Internet.
Technical Requirements
Lucerne Publishing must meet the following technical requirements:
• Centralize performance and availability monitoring of the Remote Desktop servers.
• Centralize the collection of all security-related events generated on the Remote Desktop
servers.
Security Requirements
Lucerne Publishing must meet the following security requirements:
• Only client computers that are joined to the domain must be able to access the wireless
networks.
The hours during which the client computers can connect to the wireless network must be
controlled.
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You are evaluating raising the functional level of the contoso.com forest to Windows Server 2008 R2.
You need to recommend which changes to the network must be implemented before raising the
functional level of the forest. You want to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of
administrative effort. What should you recommend?
A.
Upgrade all of the domain controllers in both forests to Windows Server 2008 R2.
B.
Upgrade all of the domain controllers in the contoso.com forest to Windows Server 2008 R2.
C.
In the contoso.com forest and the lucernepublishing.com forest, install a new domain controller
that runs Windows Server 2008 R2.
D.
In the contoso.com forest, install a new domain controller that runs Windows Server 2008 R2.
Transfer the schema master role and the domain naming master role to the new domain controller.
Explanation:
