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Project: Server Administration

Install and configure enterprise services — AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO, SFTP, VPN, Exchange on Windows Server, plus an Apache, PHP and MySQL web stack on Ubuntu.

· 2 min read · level: intermediate

Install and configure the enterprise services AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO, NAP, SFTP, SCCM, VPN and Exchange with Windows Server, as well as an SMTP relay and an Apache2, PhP, MySQL web service with Linux Ubuntu, all of it on a type 2 hypervisor.

Illustration 1 — Projet : Administration des serveurs

You are in a professional context and you must provide and maintain, for a growing startup, servers able to host the services essential to its operation.

The company Awoui specializes in the development of new clean energy technologies, such as solutions providing electrical autonomy to the towers of La Defense.

The director Leroy Jenkins expects from you a deliverable ensuring the traceability of your actions concerning the setup, the administration and the upkeep of the IT servers.

A first set of specifications is given to you; here are the points it covers:

  • User account management
  • Creation of the domain initiales-awoui.fr
  • Domain name resolution
  • Security policies, at least 3 of your choice
  • Secure network access
  • Web services and web pages
  • Database management system
  • IT asset management tool
  • Setup and management of storage
  • Secure remote access
  • Server maintenance, DaRT
  • Carry out an access test from a Windows 10 client
  • Overall diagram of the infrastructure

BONUS (optional):

  • Mailbox with SMTP relay
  • System and configuration management center

A first deliverable must be handed in as a Technical Architecture Document (DAT) on 12/22/2020. The final document must be handed in by 01/04/2021

Done with pleasure, it is better!

Resources:

Windows Firewall

Ubuntu server setup, remote SSH access

GLPI IT asset management tool

Exchange installation and configuration

System Center Configuration Manager

Documents were attached to the original article (“Linux - Installer la pile Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP).pdf”, “Windows Server - Pratique 4. Mettre en place la surveillance.pdf”, “Windows Server - Pratique 5. Installer un serveur DHCP.pdf”, and 3 others): the download widget of the former editor did not carry them into the archive, and they are not republished.