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Case Study: 11
Nothwind Traders
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Northwind Traders is an import/export company that has a main office and two branch
offices. The main office is located in Toronto. The branch offices are located in Vancouver
and Seattle. The main office has 2,000 users. Each branch office has 500 users.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All client computers run Windows 7 Enterprise. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2.
All new servers are deployed by using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
Northwind Traders has multiple Hyper-V servers. The Hyper-V servers are managed by
using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
The perimeter network contains a standalone server. The server has the Active Directory
Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) service role installed. AD LDS is administered on
the server by using the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.
All virtual machines (VMs) access iSCSI-based storage by using a Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
installed on the VM.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named northwindtraders.com. The
forest contains five Remote Desktop servers. All Remote Desktop servers are in an
organizational unit (OU) named RD Servers.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Northwind Traders must meet the following technical requirements:
• Minimize server downtime.
• Ensure that you can recover all of the data hosted on the VMs.
• Ensure that you can perform bare metal restores of the Hyper-V servers.
• Minimize the number of times a server restarts when it is deployed.
• Monitor the CPU utilization, memory utilization, and disk utilization of all the servers
to analyze performance trends.

• Ensure that a specific set of Group Policy settings are App1ied to users who use
Remote Desktop to connect to the Remote Desktop servers. The settings must differ from
those App1ied when the users log on locally to their own computers.
• Copy a custom Microsoft Office Word dictionary to the computers in the legal
department. Update the custom dictionary on a regular basis. Copy the updated version of the
dictionary as soon as possible to the legal department computers.
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You need to recommend a solution for deploying the custom Word dictionary. What should you
include in the recommendation?

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Case Study: 11
Nothwind Traders
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Northwind Traders is an import/export company that has a main office and two branch
offices. The main office is located in Toronto. The branch offices are located in Vancouver
and Seattle. The main office has 2,000 users. Each branch office has 500 users.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All client computers run Windows 7 Enterprise. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2.
All new servers are deployed by using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
Northwind Traders has multiple Hyper-V servers. The Hyper-V servers are managed by
using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
The perimeter network contains a standalone server. The server has the Active Directory
Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) service role installed. AD LDS is administered on
the server by using the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.
All virtual machines (VMs) access iSCSI-based storage by using a Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
installed on the VM.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory forest named northwindtraders.com. The
forest contains five Remote Desktop servers. All Remote Desktop servers are in an
organizational unit (OU) named RD Servers.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Northwind Traders must meet the following technical requirements:
• Minimize server downtime.
• Ensure that you can recover all of the data hosted on the VMs.
• Ensure that you can perform bare metal restores of the Hyper-V servers.
• Minimize the number of times a server restarts when it is deployed.
• Monitor the CPU utilization, memory utilization, and disk utilization of all the servers
to analyze performance trends.

• Ensure that a specific set of Group Policy settings are App1ied to users who use
Remote Desktop to connect to the Remote Desktop servers. The settings must differ from
those App1ied when the users log on locally to their own computers.
• Copy a custom Microsoft Office Word dictionary to the computers in the legal
department. Update the custom dictionary on a regular basis. Copy the updated version of the
dictionary as soon as possible to the legal department computers.
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You need to recommend a backup strategy for HyperV. What should you recommend?

###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 12
Wingtip Toys
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Wingtip Toys is an international company that has a main office and several branch offices.
The main office is located in Moscow. The branch offices are located throughout Europe. The
main office has 500 users. Each branch office has 4 to 70 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Wingtip Toys opens a new branch office that contains a file server. You plan to promote the
file server to a Read-only Domain Controller (RODC). Wingtip Toys plans to hire a
consulting firm to manage its Web site. The consulting firm must only be permitted to
manage the Web site and must be prevented from accessing to all other server resources.
Wingtip Toys plans to purchase a high-resolution printer that will be connected to a print

server in the main office. Users must be charged for each page that they print on the printer.
You plan to present additional storage to a two node failover cluster in the main office. The
storage will be used by the file server instance.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. All client
computers run either Windows Vista Enterprise or Windows 7 Enterprise.
Existing Network Infrastructure
The network contains an internal network and a perimeter network. The company Web site is
hosted on a standalone server in the perimeter network. The main office connects to each
branch office by using a 1-Mbps WAN link.
Existing Active Directory Environment
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named wingtiptoys.com. An Active
Directory site exists for each office. Each Active Directory site contains a single subnet. The
main office has two domain controllers. Each branch office has a single domain controller.
REQUIREMENTS
Technical Requirements
Wingtip Toys must meet the following technical requirements:
• Minimize network utilization.
• Minimize WAN link utilization.
• Ensure that the file servers can access additional storage as a local drive.
• Ensure that changes to the network are transparent to users whenever possible.
• Ensure that new storage solutions are supported by Windows Failover Clustering.
• Ensure that each user can access his Documents folder from any client computer.
• Automatically organize the files on the file servers according to the contents of the
files.
• Ensure that storage can be provisioned without causing any downtime of the file
servers.
• Ensure that the data on the file servers is protected by using Windows BitLocker
Drive Encryption (BitLocker).
Problem Statements
All users store their documents and other data in the Documents folder on their respective
client computers. The users report that when they log on to a computer that is not their own,
their documents are unavailable.
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You need to recommend a solution for storing user documents. What should you include in the
recommendation?

###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 12
Wingtip Toys
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Wingtip Toys is an international company that has a main office and several branch offices.
The main office is located in Moscow. The branch offices are located throughout Europe. The
main office has 500 users. Each branch office has 4 to 70 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Wingtip Toys opens a new branch office that contains a file server. You plan to promote the
file server to a Read-only Domain Controller (RODC). Wingtip Toys plans to hire a
consulting firm to manage its Web site. The consulting firm must only be permitted to
manage the Web site and must be prevented from accessing to all other server resources.
Wingtip Toys plans to purchase a high-resolution printer that will be connected to a print

server in the main office. Users must be charged for each page that they print on the printer.
You plan to present additional storage to a two node failover cluster in the main office. The
storage will be used by the file server instance.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. All client
computers run either Windows Vista Enterprise or Windows 7 Enterprise.
Existing Network Infrastructure
The network contains an internal network and a perimeter network. The company Web site is
hosted on a standalone server in the perimeter network. The main office connects to each
branch office by using a 1-Mbps WAN link.
Existing Active Directory Environment
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named wingtiptoys.com. An Active
Directory site exists for each office. Each Active Directory site contains a single subnet. The
main office has two domain controllers. Each branch office has a single domain controller.
REQUIREMENTS
Technical Requirements
Wingtip Toys must meet the following technical requirements:
• Minimize network utilization.
• Minimize WAN link utilization.
• Ensure that the file servers can access additional storage as a local drive.
• Ensure that changes to the network are transparent to users whenever possible.
• Ensure that new storage solutions are supported by Windows Failover Clustering.
• Ensure that each user can access his Documents folder from any client computer.
• Automatically organize the files on the file servers according to the contents of the
files.
• Ensure that storage can be provisioned without causing any downtime of the file
servers.
• Ensure that the data on the file servers is protected by using Windows BitLocker
Drive Encryption (BitLocker).
Problem Statements
All users store their documents and other data in the Documents folder on their respective
client computers. The users report that when they log on to a computer that is not their own,
their documents are unavailable.
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You need to recommend a monitoring solution for the new printer. What should you include in the
recommendation?