Textbook: Hands-On Microsoft® Windows® Server 2016, 2nd Edition, Michael Palmer,

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Textbook: Hands-On Microsoft® Windows® Server 2016, 2nd Edition, Michael Palmer, ISBN-13: 9781305078628
Case Project 1-1: Choosing a Ne Operating System Cutting Edge is a company with 122 employees who make cutting boards and a full line of knives and knife sets for home and commercial kitchens. The company is divided into several departments, including Development, Marketing, Business, Manufacturing, Information systems(IS), and Inventory and shipping. There is also a management team consisting of the company president, vice president, chief financial officer, the managers of each department. The company is housed in one building that is fully networked. All employees have access to a desktop or laptop computer. These computers are a mixture of windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 machines. At this point, there is a Windows Server 2012 (without Release 2) server in each department, and tho company is planning to gradually upgrade each server to Windows Server 2016. The IS Department is the smallest department, consisting of four very overworked employees. Considering the IS workload, the IS manager hires you to help assess the server needs of the company and make recommendations for the future. 1. The marketing Department uses large name and address databases for catalog and other promotions. Some of the databases are ones they own and others are purchased from other catalog sales companies and from Internet companies. The databases are currently on Windows Server 2012 (without Release 2), Standared Edition server, which is overloaded. When they perform sorts and queries of addresses, the computer operates extremely slowly Which Windows Server 2016 edition do you recommended for them? Provide a justification for your recommendation. 2. The Marketing Department wants to establish an Internet business to supplement cutting Edge's catalog and outlet businesses. Which Windows Server 2016 system would work for the Internet portion of the business? Be sure to justify your recommendation. 3. Because they like stability without dramatic change, the Business Department has an old Windows 2003 Server system and is concerned about security and reliability. To which Windows Server 2016 edition do you recommend they upgrade? Note some features that would be important for the Business Department.

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Answer 1:

The issue can be due to huge volumes of data and large record sizes, which makes sorting and retrieval of data is a heavy job for the server. Which makes the database slow. Address field can contain various information like country, city, locality and also the addresses are not a standardized data’s which makes sorting slow on it as the server has to sort keeping everything in consideration.

Windows Storage server 2016 is recommended at is gives data duplication feature for vitalized data backups. It also supports azure backup, ReFS (resilient filesystem) to deliver performance even if it contains huge volume of data and Storage quality of service to monitor end-to-end storage performance.

Answer 2:

Windows server 2016 datacenter is recommended here as it can use unlimited virtual machines so that users can use it over the internet without facing slowness.

In addition, it has shielded Hyper-V for better virtualization. It also has enhanced storage, failover clustering, Windows Standards-Based Storage Management, VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) integration features.

Answer 3:

In this case Windows server 2016 standard edition can be used, as in this scenario limited virtualization will be used and due to the internet type business, a general purpose yet a sturdy Server OS is needed so that very less downtime occurs, else it will affect many individuals using it. Hence, this will be the best choice. Some highlighting features are, limited virtualization 2 virtual machines, plus one Hyper-V host per license to keep the server stable, Network Policy and Access Services, Bitlocker network and drive encryption, cache branching, group policy management, Windows Server Backup, lightweight and quick processing of transactions due to limited virtualization.

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