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Current environment
Overview
You are the SharePoint administrator for a manufacturing company named Contoso, Ltd. You have the following environments:
Each site collection uses a unique content database.
Details
Dallas
You configure a My Sites host site collection at the URL http://Dallas.contoso.com/personal. The Dallas site collection also hosts a
web application that will be used exclusively by sales department employees for creating customer sites. Employees access the site at the URL http://customer.contoso.com.
Chicago
The Chicago location has a primary datacenter and a secondary datacenter.
Denver
Some of the sites in the Denver site collection run in SharePoint 2010 mode.
Atlanta
The Atlanta site collection is used exclusively by marketing department employees.
Detroit
The development site collection is used only by SharePoint administ
rators for internal testing.
Seattle
The IT site collection is used by the IT department to share content with other employees. The following servers are available in the Seattle datacenter:
Server1 and Server5 are located in the Seattle perimeter
network. End users have direct access only to these servers.
Server2and Server6 are optimized for high throughput.
Server3 and Server7 have storage that is optimized for caching.
Server4 and Server8 are not currently in use.
The servers in the Seattle dat
acenter are not configured for redundancy.
Office 365
You have an existing Office 365 tenant. You use Azure Active Directory Connect to provision the hosted environment.
Requirements
Chicago
You identify the following requirements for the Chicago offi
ce:
General requirements
Chicago must remain a standalone on-premises SharePoint environment. There must be no connectivity with Office 365.
You must deploy a new Office Online Server farm named oos-chi.contoso.com to the environment. This farm will be
used from within the network and externally. All connections to the Office Online Server farm must use IPSec.
Disaster recovery requirements
You must use the secondary datacenter in Chicago for disaster recovery.
You must be able to recover the Chicago.co
ntoso.com SharePoint farm to the secondary datacenter. Any recovery operations must complete in less than five minutes if the primary datacenter fails.
You must minimize the costs associated with deploying the disaster recovery solution.
Dallas
You
identify the following requirements for the Dallas office:
General requirements
You must configure the Dallas SharePoint farm as a hybrid environment with the Office 365 tenant.
You must support OneDrive for Business, Site following, Profiles, and the Ext
ensible app launcher.
You must minimize the number of servers that you must add to the environment.
You must grant users only the minimum permissions needed.
You must ensure thathttp://dallas.contoso.com/personalsite is only used for employee personal site
s.
Only farm administrators are permitted to create site collections in thehttp://Dallas.contoso.comweb applications.
Requirements for sales department employees
Sales users must be able to create child sites under thehttp://customer.contoso.comweb applic
ation.
Sales users must be able to create site collections.
Seattle
You must implement a new SharePoint environment. Employees in the IT department will use the environment to share content with other employees. You identify the following requirements fo
r the Seattle office:
General requirements
You must configure the farm by using MinRole.
You must implement redundancy.
Employees must be able to search all content in the farm.
Office 365-specific requirements
You must support only OneDrive for Business
and Profiles.
You must minimize the number of servers that you must add to the environment.
Other requirements
Atlanta
You must deploy a new SharePoint farm at the Atlanta office. The farm must meet the following requirements:
The farm must be highly a
vailable.
Operating systems must support file system encryption.
Search databases must be stored on a file system that automatically repairs corrupt files.
Content databases must be stored on file systems that support the highest level of scalability.
Bos
ton
You must upgrade the existing SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2016. Employees who use the farm must be able to continue using the farm during the upgrade process.
Denver
You must perform a database check before you upgrade SharePoint.
SQL Server
All
SharePoint environments must use dedicated SQL Servers.
The Atlanta SharePoint farm must use SQL Always On and a group named SP16-SQLAO.
The Atlanta SQL environment must use a SQL alias named SQL.
Office 365
You must use Active Directory Import to
synchronize any on-premises SharePoint environments with the Office 365 tenant.
You need to ensure that sales department users can create site collections.
You run the following Windows PowerShell commands:
$w = Get-SPWebApplication
http://customer.contoso.com
$w.SelfServiceSiteCreationEnabled =$True
$w.Update()
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Explanation: