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WolfTech Active Directory

You don't want to be dealing with the basics of setting up and adminstrating your computer network -- you want to be focusing on your department or college's specific, and specialized needs. Take the opportunity to take a lot of the basic support infrastructure out of your worries.

WolfTech Domain Overview

Departments have their own OU with delegation of control
Accounts created and managed by an automated feed from campus LDAP.
Passwords are synchronized with the Campus Password change page (http://www.ncsu.edu/password/)
AD hosted by 3 DCs running Windows 2003, distributed to meet campus disastery recovery policies.
Only campus domain to pass the NCSU Active Directory IT Audit review.
Utilizes the campus DNS servers (running on Unix) -- seemlessly ties into campus usage of QIP
Provide "help desk" type support to help with simple AD related issues (such as unlocking accounts, help with GPO, creating new OU for a new dept.)
All ongoing care and feed of the AD (backup, domain check, security updates, etc) provided.

Solve Your Windows Issues

the ability to implement group policy to force machines to use a WSUS server for updates
antivirus installation and updating
pushing out software such as Microsoft Office to the desktop
password consolidation
enforced password complexity
local administrator password randomization and control
redirect folders (My Documents) to network storage for a department and do regular backups
use Remote Assistance to effectively assist distributed users
roaming profiles - profiles stored on server so you can login from multiple workstations
easier printer access - printers can be listed in the directory, giving users "point and click" installations
easier file sharing between computers
all the other cool kids are doing it -- you know you want to...

Additional Benefits

student accts
class groups
reporting
webinterfaces (coming soon)
SAV server
WSUS server
printer reports (in planning)
inventory / software management
integration with MBDv3 inventory software
tested and production integration with campus storage management system

In the Works...

Linux integration
Macintosh integration
WolfCopy integration

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 *Only campus domain to pass the NCSU Active Directory IT Audit review.
 *Utilizes the campus DNS servers (running on Unix) -- seemlessly ties into campus usage of QIP
-*Provide "help desk" type support to help with simple AD related issues (such as unlocking accounts, help with GPO, created new OU for a new dept.)
+*Provide "help desk" type support to help with simple AD related issues (such as unlocking accounts, help with GPO, creating new OU for a new dept.)
 *All ongoing care and feed of the AD (backup, domain check, security updates, etc) provided.