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Case Study: 2
Fabrikam Inc
Company Overview
Fabrikam Inc. is a leading manufacturer of children’s toys.
Physical Locations
Fabrikam has a main office in Seattle and a manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. The offices
connect to each other by using a heavily congested high-speed WAN link. Each office has a
dedicated connection to the Internet.
Research and development personnel are located in both the Seattle office and the Los
Angeles office.
Existing Environment
Active Directory Environment
Fabrikam has an Active Directory forest that contains one domain name fabrikam.com. The
Active Directory forest has the following configurations:
• An Active Directory site exists for each office.
• All domain controllers run Windows Server 2003 x86 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
• The functional level of the forest and the domain is Windows Server 2003 interim.
• All of the user accounts for the users in the Seattle office are located in an organizational
unit (OU) named Users\Seattle.
• All of the user accounts for the users in the Los Angeles offices are located in an
organizational unit (OU) named Users\Los Angeles.
• Both offices have a help desk staff. The help desk staff in each office is responsible for
managing all of the users in its respective office.
Messaging Environment
Fabrikam has an Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) organization that has the
following configurations:
• A 500-MB mailbox quota for all users
• An SMTP connector that has the following configurations:
• Address space: *
• Delivery: DNS
• Local bridgehead: SEA-BE-1
Fabrikam has a partner company named Tailspin Toys; The Fabrikam Exchange servers are
configured as ETRN servers for tailspintoys.com. The Exchange organization contains four
servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.
Requirements
Business Goals
Fabrikam has the following business goals:
• Minimize hardware costs.
• Minimize administrative
Minimize WAN link utilization between the two offices.
Planned Changes
Fabrikam plans to migrate to Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
You plan to deploy a Hub Transport server named SEA-HUB-1 in the Seattle site.
You plan to deploy a Hub Transport server named LA-HUB-1 in the Los Angeles site.
Archiving Requirements
Email messages that are older than 180 days must be moved automatically to a distinct
mailbox database.
Security Requirements
Fabrikam must meet the following security requirements:
• Anti-spam filtering must be performed on all email messages before the messages enter the
network.
• The help desk staff must be prevented from modifying user accounts for users located in
remote offices.
• The number of permissions assigned to the members of a group named Exchange Server
Troubleshooters must be minimized.
Security Requirements
Fabrikam must meet the following security requirements:
• Anti-spam filtering must be performed on all email messages before the messages enter the
network.
• The help desk staff must be prevented from modifying user accounts for users located in
remote offices.
• The number of permissions assigned to the members of a group named Exchange Server
Troubleshooters must be minimized.
Redundancy Requirements
Fabrikam must meet the following redundancy requirements:
• A copy of all the mailbox databases must exist in both sites.
• The impact on users must be minimized if a single server fails.
• Users must be able to send and receive messages if a single server fails.
• All of the mailbox databases must be available if the WAN link fails between the offices.
Problem Statements
The WAN link between the Seattle office and the Los Angeles office is heavily congested.
During normal business hours, the average round-trip time for packets to travel across the
WAN link is 200 ms. The portable computer of the manager of the accounting department
recently experienced a hard disk failure. The hard disk failure resulted in the loss of more
than two years of email and other personal data.
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You need to recommend a message routing design for the period during which Fabrikam transitions
from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 SP1. The solution must meet the business goals
of Fabrikam. What should you include in the recommendation? (Choose all that apply.)
A.
a scoped Send connector that uses SEA-HUB-1 as the source server
B.
a scoped Send connector that uses LA-BE-1 as the source server
C.
a linked connector for each Send connector
D.
a scoped Send connector that uses LA-HUB-1 as the source server
E.
a scoped Send connector that uses SEA-BE-1 as the source server
F.
an Exchange hub site for each site