Active Directory Implementation for an IT Company with 100+ Employees
About Our Client
A professional Eastern European software development services provider with more than 100 employees. The Client offers project-based software development as well as sets up dedicated teams and offshore departments for its customers.
Challenge
Due to a rapid staff growth, the Client was looking for a reliable partner to assist in IT infrastructure redesigning and rebuilding. The Client’s executive team set up the following objectives needed to be attained:
- centralized access management for the Client’s IT resources;
- implementation of management and monitoring processes for employees’ workstations;
- centralized software installation and maintenance.
Solution
The Client decided to take advantage of ScienceSoft’s wide experience with projects of the same essence.
To offer the best solution that meets all the requirements, ScienceSoft team carried out the Client’s IT infrastructure analysis and presented its recommendations.
Since employees’ workstations run under MS Windows, IT experts recommended deploying Microsoft Active Directory for assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers as well as installing or updating software.
Results
ScienceSoft’s experts integrated Microsoft Active Directory with the Client’s infrastructure. The solution provided by ScienceSoft profit the Client with an ability to build up a solid identification\authentication system for the Client’s IT infrastructure resources. In addition, ScienceSoft team managed to ensure integration not only with Windows-based services but also with GNU Linux and MacOS.
Technologies and Tools
Microsoft Active Directory, Windows 2008 R2, Microsoft PowerShell, Microsoft NLB, Microsoft Cluster, Microsoft Certification Services.
