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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
• optional local administrator password randomization and control
• ability to redirect folders (My Documents) to network storage for a department and do regular backups
• use Remote Assistance to effectively assist distributed users regardless of location
• easier printer access - printers can be listed in the directory, giving users "point and click" installations
• easier file sharing between computers
• remotely push "gpupdate" / "reboot" / "shutdown" commands to your 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 (automated patching)
• printer reports (in planning)
• inventory / software management
• integration with MBDv3 inventory software
• tested and production integration with campus storage management system

In the Works... / Wishlist

• Linux integration
• Macintosh integration
• WolfCopy integration
• Wake On LAN support