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Thought experiment
Supporting a new branch office
In this thought experiment, apply what you've learned about this objective. You can
find answers to these questions in the “Answers” section at the end of this chapter.
You are the network administrator for TreyResearch.net, and the company has
decided to expand operations to include an East Coast branch office. Initially, this
office will be in shared space and be limited to sales and administrative staff, with
no full-time IT staff onsite and only a limited bandwidth connection to the main
data center.
1.
Should you create a separate subdomain for the new office?
2.
Does the office need a domain controller? If it does, what kind should it have?
3.
Should one of the administrative staff be assigned as a Domain Administrator to
support the operations at the new office?
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UGMC can speed up local user logons and reduce loads on slow WAN connections
where a global catalog server isn't available.
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AD DS uses five operations master roles to support the operation of the forest and
domain.
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FSMO roles can be transferred to a different domain controller if both the source and
target domain controllers are available and communicating.
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When a domain controller that holds an operations master role becomes permanently
unavailable, the role can be seized by another domain controller.
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RODCs enable an improved user experience at remote sites.
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RODCs can be prestaged for deployment, allowing them to be automatically promoted
without administrator intervention.
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In virtual environments, domain controllers can be cloned to quickly create multiple
domain controllers that have a known and consistent configuration.
