Task 1 – Technical Essay (3000 Words)

Describe and critically evaluate the similarities between the Windows and Unix operating systems (evaluate the following):

• Ubuntu Linux / Linux Mint
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows 7/8
• Oracle Solaris
• What are some of the advantages of running UNIX?
• What is UNIX’s main philosophy
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Task 2 – Identify and describe the processes involved in the Windows Client Server environment.

Explain the role of client/server in the networking environment, describe the roles of:

• Domain controllers
• File servers
• Print servers
• DNS servers
• Application servers
• Terminal servers

Provide examples of the above where it could be applied in industry?

Task 3 – Identify and describe the processes involved in the management of the Active Directory infrastructure.

Identify and describe the processes in creating, modifying and managing user accounts, creating groups, managing groups and resources.

Explain and show examples of creating, modifying user accounts and permissions in Windows Active Directory.

Task 4 – Identify and describe the processes involved in the management of the services, disk quotas and security of both Windows and UNIX operating systems.

Jason is the administrator of a Windows 2008 network.  He manages five Windows 2008 servers, one of which functions as a file server for three departments. Lately, he is faced with two separate problems. First, a research library was just put into the building. It has two computers running Windows 7, and users can log into them while they are doing research. They are automatically connected to a home directory on the server where the users can create documents based on their research findings. However, the users are finding that, when they move from the computers in their offices to the research computers, they have to reset their desktops, and if they create a shortcut on their office computers, they have to create the same shortcut on the research machines. The users are asking for a solution to this problem.

The second issue is one that the users are not complaining about (yet), but that is becoming a problem for Jason. The users’ home folders are stored on the file server. He periodically checks storage use and finds that some users are consuming a disproportionate amount of hard drive space on the server. In addition, this space usage is increasing dramatically over time. When he investigates, he finds that many users are downloading quite a large quantity of game demos and pictures, and these items are creating most of the storage consumption.

Jason wants to be able to provide for the ongoing storage needs of the users while enforcing an upper limit on the amount of space any one user can consume. He also wants to be able to separate each department so that if the users in one department consume the maximum amount of space, that will not overrun the free space available to the users in another department. He currently has two hard drives with capacities of 100GB and 200GB, and he would like to allocate 100GB to each department.

Task

• You have been called in to analyze this situation and make recommendations.
• Explain how you would implement a similar scenario using UNIX?

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