Advanced Configuration Scenario

This assignment is a continuation from the Week Two assignment.

Management at Westlake Olive has tasked you and your department with creating a Business Continuity plan. This plan is a guide that your team can use to restore server and networking services in the event of a hardware failure or natural disaster.

Create a 1-page detailed list of steps needed to recover a Windows 2012 R2 server from a complete failure.

Create a 1/2-page memo with a minimum of 175 words to the company's CIO, Robert Jones, that describes the capabilities of site-level tolerance. Highlight the benefits of this service if it were to be configured across the two locations.

Use the following scenario for the Week One through Four individual assignments:

You are the IT Manager for Westlake Olive, a large producer of olive oil. While Westlake Olive produces only one product, they have dominated the industry and doubled in size the last five years.

As the IT Manager, you are ultimately responsible for the configuration and administration of all servers, network infrastructure, and end user laptops and desktops. Your team consists of:

• A Systems Administrator
• A Network Administrator

Westlake Olive has two facilities: a production facility in Denver, Colorado, and a corporate headquarters in Sacramento, California. Each location has the following technology:

Denver, Colorado. The olive oil production facility has:

• 5 Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V® hosts running 25 Windows 2012 R2 guests
• 45 Windows 10 laptops and desktops
• A 1 Gps connection to the organizations MPLS network

Sacramento, California. The olive oil company's Corporate Headquarters has:

• 2 Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V® hosts running 7 Windows 2012 R2 guests
• 5 Windows 10 laptops and desktops
• A 1 Gps connection to the organizations MPLS network

Your team has previously configured network services between the two locations using the MPLS network, and the westlakeolives.local domain has already been established. It is now your team's responsibility to configure and administer advanced services for the domain and respond to managements requirements.