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Active Directory and Infrastructure Design

Our infrastructure design services address all aspects of Active Directory: design, routine health checks, and good management tools.

Active Directory Design

Our Design and Implementation Services for Active Directory allow you to deploy and optimise Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory services in the most effective way possible by implementing consistent, reproducible processes and configurations that improve efficiency and require less effort to maintain.

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Active Directory Health Checks

Our Active Directory Health Check service is designed to ensure your systems are configured with the latest Microsoft ’Best Practise’ and to certify that the authentication services are correctly configured to achieve the key business requirements across the whole organisation. We've taken the Microsoft AD RAP (Risk Aseesment Program) to the next level.

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Microsoft System Centre

Microsoft's System Centre solutions play a central role in helping IT organisations benefit from self-managing, dynamic systems. System Centre solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about the infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so that IT professionals can optimise IT structures to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

- System Centre Configuration Manager

SCCM gives your IT team two major tools, the ability to audit hardware and software, and the ability to deploy software and operating systems. All of this from a simple to use management console your IT team can easily manage your desktop and server estate from a central control point.

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- System Centre Operation Manager

SCOM gives you a unified view of the health of your Microsoft estate. By deploying agents SCOM is able to monitor not just Operating System performance and problems but it also comes with a large number of management packs to monitor enterprise software like SQL Server and Exchange. SCOM enables you to reduce the cost of data centre management across server operating systems and hypervisors through a single, familiar and easy to use interface.

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- System Centre Data Protection Manager

DPM offers a unique backup solution from Microsoft that gives you the ability to backup your Microsoft server estate and Hyper-V platforms. With the inside knowledge of how each product works DPM is able to baseline your server estate and then take incremental snapshots up to the number of versions you specify.

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- System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

For IT professionals responsible for managing virtual infrastructures, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines. SCVMM supports both Hyper-V and VMware platforms.

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Microsoft Hyper V

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is available as a stand-alone product, or integrated into your normal Windows installation. It provides a reliable and optimised virtualisation solution enabling you to improve server utilisation and reduce costs. Learn how virtualising your infrastructure on a Microsoft platform can lower your adoption costs as their is no need to fully re-train staff in new technologies as the Microsoft interfaces and concepts are consistent and familiar to everyone.

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Distributed File System Design

The Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 offer wide area network (WAN)-friendly replication as well as simplified, fault-tolerant access to geographically dispersed files. Restructure your old file shares and get simplified access and built in automatic disaster recovery all for free on your Windows platform.

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