Systems Scenario

File and print services

Print and file services would be configured by setting up dedicated servers that would be used for file services and print services. These servers would be centrally placed in the various subnets or departments that are involved in each of the network locations. All the workstations would be connected to these services through networking and the use of IP addresses that refer to the file and print servers. Therefore, anyone in the specified network would use access the network resource and make use of the print and file services. (Zacker & Tulloch, 2009).

Most of the network servers have the ability to set the printer settings so as to enable network capability of accessing the printer and printing documents through a network. The IP address and the port of the printers would be set through the device manager of most network operating systems. For the Akron network, the networks servers can be selected to provide the print services.

When such a setup is set, the administrator would have control of the print devices and schedule printers, set priority as well as configuring the printer properties. A Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tool can also be configured so that remote printing administration would be enabled for the network.

One of the servers can be set to act as the file server. This would enable the management of the files being shared among the 10 desktops and 2 servers. It is recommendable that the NTFS formatting should be done on file server so as to allow folder and file permission sets as well as encryption ability for security purposes and access control. This would provide the workforce in this new facility to store their files on the file servers instead of the local drives on the computers. Such activity would ensure efficient and even secure file storage. Such a configuration would help to store database on a central place and allow network applications to manage corporate data effectively.

Remote management

Remote management on Akron, Ohio can be configured to allow remote connection to the main servers that are located in other remote offices of the company. This can be done by setting up and configuring one of the Windows 2012 R2 servers to allow remote connection. In this network operating system, remote configuration is enabled by default and users can configure the remote connection through the windows PowerShell and typing, Configure-SMremoting.exe –enable.

Virtual Machine use

Virtual machines may be configured by setting the Hyper –V functionality in one of the Windows 2012 R2 servers. When setting the properties, the appropriate size of the RAM memory should be segmented appropriately. So as to provide efficient use, the physical servers should have good sizes of RAM memory. 16 GB of RAM memory would be appropriate to host a number of virtual machines. Since the virtual machine would be hosted in one physical server, each VM should be assigned a private IP address or a subnet and share one common IP address that would be from the IP address set of the rest of the physical machines of the new facility at Akron.

DHCP and DNS

DHCP would allow dynamic assignment of IP address. It can be installed in one of the two servers in the new facility by adding roles on the control panel. First, configurations should be set to provide the range of IP addresses to be assigned depending on the size of the hosts. E.g. 255.255.255.207 to 255.255.255.250. Checks should also be made to identify which of the machines would need static IP address and those for DHCP. Also, configurations should be set to determine which network data or information would be provided to the DHCP client after obtaining the IP address. Such information would include DNS servers, WINS servers and default gateway. (Warren, 2018). The following subheading would provide on the way configurations can be done for the DNS as well as the IP addressing.

IP Addressing

IP addressing would be configured by making specifications to the Windows 2012 R2 server. At the control panel, there is the setting for the local server. Selecting the Ethernet and Ipv4 would bring a dialog box that would provide the user with the ability to set the IP addressing configurations, subnet mask and default gateway. In the same dialog box, it is possible to set the preferred DNS server and the alternative one.

Organizational Unit design

The new site can be configured with organizational unit (OU) which would be most preferred to act as containers of objects in the Active Directory. The OU should be configured to manage domain controller, user accounts, computers and group accounts. The group policy should be set to allow the principles that would guide the use of the network resources in the new site. File sharing and print services can as well be configured in the OU. (Melber, 2012)

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