Overview
General Overview
Litware, Inc. is an international manufacturing company that has 1,500 employees.
Litware has a main office and a branch office. The main office is located in Montreal. The branch
office is located in Seattle. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link.
Network Configuration
The environment contains a production network and a development network. The two networks are
isolated from one another. The networks use the addressing schemes shown in the following table.
Router interfaces are assigned the first IP address on each subnet.
Existing Environment
Active Directory
The network contains two Active Directory forests named litware.com and dev.litware.com. Each
forest contains a single domain. The functional level of both forests is Windows Server2012 R2.
Management Infrastructure
Litware has a deployment of Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. On the
production network in the Montreal office, Configuration Manager agents are installed on the client
computers that run Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Configuration Manager is used only to deploy
Windows updates.
Operating systems are deployed either manually or by using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
Configuration Manager servers and WDS servers have the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
2013 installed Configuration Manager and MDT are integrated.
Windows Server and Client Environment
The network contains servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2.
The network contains the client computers configured as shown in the following table.
The relevant servers in the production network are configured as shown in the following table.
The relevant computers on the development network are configured as shown in the following table.
Problem Statements
Litware identifies the following issues on the networks:
– IT administrators report that operating system deployment and license
tracking of Windows 8.1 Enterprise are too labor intensive.
– Certain internally developed applications have compatibility issues
with Windows 8.1 Enterprise.
CustomSettings.ini
CustomSettings.ini on Server201 and Server301 will contain the following information:
Requirements
Business Goals
As much as possible, Litware plans to minimize the costs associated with purchasing hardware
and software.
Planned Changes
Litware plans to implement the following changes to the networks:
– On the production network, implement a Key Management Service (KMS).
– Deploy a Configuration Manager agent to all of the production network
computers.
– On the production network, implement a Zero Touch deployment of Windows
8.1 Enterprise.
– On the production network, deploy Windows 8.1 Enterprise to all of the
client computers that run Windows 7 Enterprise.
– On the development network, implement a Lite Touch deployment of Windows
7 Enterprise and Windows 8.1 Enterprise.
General Requirements
Litware identifies the following general requirements:
– Images deployed by using Configuration Manager and WDS must include Windows updates that
are deployed already to the client computers.
– The installation of Microsoft Office 2013 on the production and development networks must
include Outlook, Word, and Excel only.
– The deployed operating system must take full advantage of the hardware platform to which it is
deployed.
– Network traffic to the Internet and WAN traffic between the offices must be minimized, whenever
possible.
– Administrative effort must be minimized, whenever possible.
Production Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements for the planned deployments to the
production network:
– Operating system deployments must include the latest Windows updates.
– All SQL Server instances must be Standard edition or Enterprise edition.
– Images copied between distribution points must NOT use any network
bandwidth.
– The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit must be used for
all assessments of the client computers.
– Operating system deployments to the production network computers must
use Configuration Manager integrated with MDT.
– Office 2013 must be deployed to the production network computers by
using Microsoft Application Visualization (App-V).
– Server1 and Server101 must be used for operating system deployments and
Windows update deployments to the production network computers.
– All Configuration Manager operating system deployment task sequences
must be capable of using the settings configured in Customsettings.ini.
– The capture of reference images on the Configuration Manager servers
must be implemented by using the build and capture a reference operating
system image task sequence.
Development Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements for the planned deployments to the
development network:
– When reinstalling computers on the development network, the user state
of the administrator account and the local accounts must not be captured.
The user state of all other accounts must be captured.
– Application compatibility issues of internally developed applications
must be identified by monitoring the execution of each application on the
Windows 8.1 Enterprise computers.
– Server201 and Server301 must be used for operating system deployments
to the development network computers by using WDS integrated with MDT.
– All new systems on the development network must run Windows 7 Enterprise
x86/x64 or Windows 8.1 Enterprise x86/x64.
– Office 2013 must be deployed to the development network by using Windows
Installer (MSI) package-based installations.
– All computers deployed to the development network must be periodically
reinstalled.
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Drag and Drop Question
You need to recommend a procedure for configuring the deployment of Office 2013 on the
production network.
Which four actions should you recommend be performed in sequence? To answer, move the
appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer: 