Activity 5.2: Planning User Accounts

In this activity you will read about an organization that is planning its Active Directory infrastructure. Your task is to analyze the organization's environment to plan the user accounts needed in an Active Directory infrastructure.

Scenario: Dearing School of Fine Art

You are an infrastructure planner on the Active Directory infrastructure design team for the Dearing School of Fine Art (DSFA), an art school located in Washington, D.C. The business and technical environment analysis documents, the forest plan, the domain plan, and the OU structure diagram have already been compiled and copies have been distributed to everyone on the team. You are now in the process of planning the naming and placing of user accounts for new students in the fiber arts department.

While looking over the Technical Standards Worksheet, you find that DSFA has selected a user account naming scheme that ensures that unique user account names are generated for all users in the forest. This naming scheme uses the first eight letters of a user's first and last names. In case of the same first and last names, the user's middle initial is used. For part-time students, "PT-" will precede the user account name.

Table 5.10 provides fictitious names and enrollment information for the new students. The table also lists the administrative groups that must administer each account.

Table 5.10 New Student List

Student name	Department	Status	Administrative group
Akhtar, Sarah	Fiber Arts	Part Time	PTFiberAdmin
Barnhill, Josh	Painting	Full Time	FTPaintAdmin
Berry, Jo	Fiber Arts	Full Time	FTFiberAdmin
Dunn, Matthew	Drawing	Full Time	CompArtAdmin
Dunn, Micheal	Drawing	Part Time	PTDrawAdmin
Hart, Sherri	Painting	Full Time	FTPaintAdmin
Jacobson, Lisa	Drawing	Full Time	CompArtAdmin
Khanna, Karan	Painting	Full Time	FTPaintAdmin
Phua, Meng	Fiber Arts	Full Time	FTFiberAdmin
Schafer, Christina	Painting	Part Time	PTPaintAdmin
Tobey, Chris	Drawing	Full Time	FTDrawAdmin
Wolfe-Hellene, Marta	Fiber Arts	Part Time	PTFiberAdmin
Young, Rob	Drawing	Full Time	FTDrawAdmin

Your design team has created the OU structure diagram shown in Figure 5.14.

Figure 5.14 OU structure diagram for the Dearing School of Fine Art

Table 5.11 is a list of administrative groups that can administer users in each OU.

Table 5.11 Administrative Groups in DSFA OUs

OU	Administrative groups
FTUsers (Fiber Arts)	SysAdmin FiberAdmin FTFiberAdmin
PTUsers (Fiber Arts)	SysAdmin FiberAdmin PTFiberAdmin
FTUsers (Painting)	SysAdmin PaintAdmin FTPaintAdmin
PTUsers (Painting)	SysAdmin PaintAdmin PTPaintAdmin
FTUsers (Drawing)	SysAdmin DrawAdmin FTDrawAdmin
PTUsers (Drawing)	SysAdmin DrawAdmin PTDrawAdmin
Computer Art	SysAdmin DrawAdmin CompArtAdmin

In the table below, place the new student accounts, by account name, in the appropriate OU.

OU	New student accounts
FTUsers (Fiber Arts)	____________________
PTUsers (Fiber Arts)	____________________
FTUsers (Painting)	____________________
PTUsers (Painting)	____________________
FTUsers (Drawing)	____________________
PTUsers (Drawing)	____________________
Computer Art	____________________

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