I'm currently in the end of my third year of a network technology degree and Directory services has always been my archilles heel so to speak. I've been given an assignment and due to the wording it is very confusing and wondered if anyone here could help.
There are three locations: Southend, London and Basildon. There are 5000 users in Southend (only have to emulate 50 and so on), with department's Staff, Finance, Students, Marketing, Technical and Information Technology. In London there are 3000 users with department's Students, Staff, Technical and IT. In Basildon there are 2000, with department's Students, Management, Staff, Technical and Information Technology.
The case study/scenerio has "the corporate IT department (Southend) wants to have central control of passwords and security settings. The IT department in London wants to maintain control of their infrastructure without collaboration with the corporate IT department. Also due to the college's current expansion plan, they are currently building two new sites in Thurrock and Chelmsford. The college has about 70 virtual and physical servers on the network infrastructure."
The current solution i have thought about is, that Southend should obviously be the Parent domain, however, which ones (if any) should be the child domains. From the line "The IT department in London wants to maintain control of their infrastructure without collaboration with the corporate IT department." makes me feel like that should be atleast the child domain and the line "Also due to the college's current expansion plan, they are currently building two new sites in Thurrock and Chelmsford" makes me believe that Basildon should also be a child domain to host Thurrock's and Chelmsford's operations. The whole assignment is badly worded which has led to half the class constantly questioning theirselves.
What makes this even worst it also states it should be Location based OU (I'm really not thrilled as any other type of Ou model i would have personally gone with to efficiently apply and maintain distinct administrative boundaries between normal users and technical minded users such as IT and Technical)
So I'm thorwing this one out to you guys
Thanks in Advance, Please respond ASAP.