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Active Directory: Planning, Deployment and
Troubleshooting
Windows Active Directory requires experience
to configure efficiently across an enterprise.
Exsos’ Microsoft
certified consultants are experts in
designing, deploying and troubleshooting
complex Microsoft Active Directory (Microsoft AD) installations.
Areas of expertise include:
- Exsos’ Microsoft-certified consultants
have extensive experience troubleshooting
complex Active Directory issues such as replication problems,
multi-domain partition configurations,
corrupted AD objects, clean-up of
legacy beta software configuration objects in production AD environment,
and repair of failed installations
of AD and AD-integrated applications.
Exsos is also skilled in using “expert
only” AD tools such as ADSIEDIT, NTDSUTIL, DCDIAG and
NETDIAG.
- Exsos offers expertise
in designing an enterprise Active Directory
environment with multiple locations and can deliver
fast, efficient solutions for fault
tolerant architecture,
placement of servers and services,
and AD server roles.
- Exsos can design and implement
an optimal DNS configuration that correctly
handles internal, external and remote users.
- To save clients the cost
of expensive reconfigurations that
may be required as a result
of poor initial decisions, Exsos can help make key early decisions concerning
Active
Directory naming
standards, hierarchical model,
IT management structure, utilization and structure of group policy objects,
plus security and
auditing
definitions. Exsos can also anticipate
the impacts of server and service configurations on functionality and
performance.
- Exsos can provide assistance
in developing and deploying group policy
security models that can save significant support
resources by effectively controlling
the ability
of users
to make configuration changes.
- To maximize system robustness
and availability, Exsos’ engineers can help
create an Active Directory architecture and provide
expert implementation that
features enterprise class
redundancy, fault tolerance, effective data protection
systems, and
seamless disaster
recovery.
- Exsos’ consultants
have experience with a broad variety of scenarios
involving Active Directory
migrations from legacy
NT domain environments, including upgrading of
existing
NT domains, “fresh” AD
domain migrations, collapsing
of multiple domains into
a single domain, and creation of sub-domain or multi-domain
environments.
- To create
a unified directory structure,
Exsos can help migrate/merge
an Exchange 5.5 directory/system into an existing Windows 2000/2003 Active
Directory system.
- In order to avoid
disruptions in productivity, Exsos
can perform seamless
multi-site/multi-server Active Directory migrations that are transparent to
users.
- Exsos can diagnose and
resolve complex problems concerning
workstation and server authentication in an Active Directory environment.
- The
specialists in Exsos can implement
and support applications
integrated with Active Directory such as Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft SMS
2003, Exchange 2000
Server, Exchange
Server 2003, and
Cisco Unity unified messaging.
- Exsos can help architect,
plan and mange the migration/merging
of an acquired entities Active Directory environment into a single AD structure.
- Exsos has world-class expertise
implementing and configuring
Microsoft Operations Manager to monitor the health and operations of a complex
Active Directory environment.
- For enhanced security,
Exsos can provide assistance
designing enterprise-wide security policies and procedures and work with Active
Directory configuration to implement
such policies.
If you are looking for expert help in designing,
deploying or troubleshooting complex
Active Directory installations, call
Exsos at (978) 620-1800.
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