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Case Study: 1
Northwind Traders
Active Directory Configurations
Northwind Traders has the following Active Directory configurations:
User attributes are stored in Active Directory.
Active Directory group membership is based on the company’s departments.
Business Requirements
Northwind Traders has the following business requirements for the planned SharePoint
Server 2010 deployment:
Custom workflows must be reused across multiple document libraries.
Human resources content must always have the highest relevancy in search results. Users
who have no development experience must be able to create custom workflows.
The initial deployment must contain 500GB of data and must support as much as 5
terabytes of content.
Technical Requirements
Northwind Traders has the following technical requirements for the planned SharePoint
Server 2010 deployment:
Databases must not exceed 100GB.
SharePoint Server 2010 processes must be evenly distributed across the servers in the
server farm.
All changes to the user profile attributes in My Sites must be updated automatically in
Active Directory.
To support backup and restore procedures, all databases must be created during the
implementation phase of SharePoint Server 2010.
Security Requirements
Northwmd Traders has the following security requirements for the planned SharePoint
Server 2010 deployment:
All users in the same department must share the same level of access to site content.
Users in the human resources department must be prevented from browsing accounting
department documents.
User Requirements
Northwind Traders has the following user requirements for the planned SharePoint Server
2010 deployment:
All customizations must be authored by a single team of developers.
All customizations must be deployed by the site collection administrators.
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You are a SharePoint administrator for Northwind Traders. The company has 20,000 employees
distributed across 11 different departments. You plan to implement a SharePoint Server 2010 server
farm for internal collaboration. You need to identify the minimum number of content databases
required for the planned SharePoint Server 2010 deployment. How many content databases should
you identify?
A.
50
B.
1
C.
11
D.
5
Explanation:
5 terrabytes 5000/100 = 50 DB