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    Canada K-12 Education IT Infrastructure Services

    Active Directory: Design


    and Implementation
    Reducing complexity today while preparing for the
    future

    The need for an ever more powerful, transparent, and tightly


    integrated directory service is driven by the explosive growth of
    Highlights networked computing. Because of the scale and complexity found
    in most school districts, a directory service is a significant
    • Increasing productivity for your IT staff component of an educational institution's computing
    infrastructure.
    • Simplifying directory service management and
    increasing security
    A properly designed and optimized directory service should
    • Delivering comprehensive implementation simplify management, strengthen security and extend
    services using proven methodologies interoperability. Whether you need a new design, an upgrade to
    a new version or a migration from a different directory to
    Microsoft's Active Directory, an updated design will lay the
    infrastructural foundation for existing and future applications and
    services delivered to administrative staff, teachers and students in
    the district.

    Moving Quickly to Prepare for New Opportunities


    Migration can be an intimidating task impacting connectivity and
    performance. Effectively upgrading your infrastructure can
    require resources and expertise that you might not have in house.
    IBM K-12 can provide you with the expertise needed for a
    successful migration while allowing your IT staff to concentrate
    on other business-critical tasks and projects.

    If you are a two-platform district, it is important to investigate


    ways to consolidate services for both platforms to minimize your
    TCO. By extending Active Directory capabilities to support the
    Apple OS X platform, IT departments can manage all
    workstations in a single large network with common policies for
    password control, user id integration, resource management and
    single sign-on and gain additional productivity for your IT staff.
    The K-12 Active Directory Design process is composed of six Apple Integration (Optional)
    phases: To assist with the integration of Apple computers into
    1: Discovery of Existing Environment - Device & Active Directory, an IBM K-12 IT architect will meet
    Functionality Needs Assessment via meetings with key IT staff with you and help you build a plan that maps to your
    2: Information Completion and Validation Phase organization's needs.
    3: Round Table / White Board Sessions to formulate various
    design scenarios with a scoring system based on pros and cons. Typical Length of Engagement: 4-8 weeks
    4: Plan / Design provides more specific details about the
    design requirements. Hardware specifications will be provided
    Why IBM?
    An Active Directory implementation for school districts is
    to allow you to map them to your vendor product families.
    very different than deployments for corporate or other
    Analysis includes:
    public sector institutions. The structure of a school
    • AD Capacity Planning (server numbers, sizing, location)
    district, the variety and nature of users, applications and
    • Storage sizing and configuration
    workstation/mobile/printing devices in schools pose
    • Backup sizing and configuration
    unique challenges and demand tested and proven K-12
    • OU layout, Login Scripts, GPOs
    design expertise. IBM K-12 AD specialists have the
    • Users and Delegation
    experience required to understand your environment and
    5: Solution Assurance Review is conducted where several IBM
    design your Active Directory configuration tailored to
    Architects review the design and provide final comments.
    your specific needs, efficiently and competently.
    6: A comprehensive report detailing ADS Design, Forest Root
    Server Design, Masters Operations Design, DNS Design, For more information
    Naming Convention Scheme, Site Topology Design, Groups To learn more about IBM K-12 Active Directory Design
    and Group Policy Design, Server Capacity Planning and ADS and Implementation, please contact your IBM Marketing
    Backup strategy Representative.

    Active Directory Implementation Services For more information on all our IBM K-12 Consulting
    Now that you have your new Active Directory design, you will and Professional Services, visit:
    want to implement it as soon as possible in order to continue to https://www.ibm.com/industries/education/canada-k-12
    decrease your total cost of ownership (TCO). A new design
    will help reduce end-user problems and allow you to provide
    new functions for these same users.
    Implement more quickly with less risk.
    An IBM Active Directory Specialist will work with you and
    your team to develop a plan and an implementation
    engagement that will include the following key activities:
    • Determine hardware requirements (temporary or permanent),
    staging and associated timelines for the implementation of the
    new design IBM Corporation
    3600 Steeles Ave. East
    • Decide on recommendations for Enterprise Application Markham, ON L3R 9Z7 Canada
    migration with information regarding directory dependency May 2020 (revised)
    of each application IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com and IBM K-12 are trademarks or registered
    • Develop a process and timeline for user migration trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United
    States, other countries, or both. If these and other IBM trademarked terms
    • Determine impact of the migration on workstations (domain are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark
    name change, and joining to new domain) symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law
    trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Such
    • Validate the process for migration testing of end users trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other
    countries. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at
    • Deploy the Network Operating system “Copyright and trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml
    • Implement an Active Directory Backup model that supports
    your Business Security and Resiliency Plan
    • Implement AD best practices for Security Tuning (NTFS,
    Delegation, GPO Placement, Organization Unit Structure
    and Organization Groups creation)
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    • Transfer of basic skills on product features through hands-on
    training for your staff.

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