Activity 5.3: Planning Groups

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 groups needed in an Active Directory infrastructure.

Scenario: The Ski Haus

You are an infrastructure planner on the Active Directory infrastructure design team for The Ski Haus, an international retailer of ski apparel. The Ski Haus uses two domains, one for resources at their Denver, Colorado, location and another for resources at their Geneva, Switzerland, location.

The Product Design department at each location maintains a separate database of ski hat designs. Product Design users at each location must have full control of the ski hat design database in their own domain. Product Design users at both locations must have read permissions on both ski hat design databases. Product Design users at both locations must have change permissions on the ski sweater design database in the Geneva location.

1. Explain how your design team will use security groups to allow the Product Design users in each domain full control of the ski hat design databases in their domains.
   
   
   
2. Explain how your design team will use security groups to allow the Product Design users in each domain read permission to the Denver and Geneva ski hat design databases.
   
   
   
3. Explain how your design team will use security groups to allow all Product Design users in both domains change permission to the ski sweater design database in Geneva.
   
   
   

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