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Active Directory is the foundation of your organization's entire computing environment; therefore a proper Active Directory design is essential to ensure a well-functioning network and organization.  

Our Active Directory assessment service provides a comprehensive analysis of your existing environment. We provide detailed recommendations on how to reduce complexity and the associated costs of managing the wide variety of user and group requirements today and in the future.

Process and Deliverables

We offer Microsoft-certified experts that follow a rigorous, well-established process using industry best practices and procedures to perform a complete assessment that includes:

• Review and analysis of site configuration and related documentation, including forests, domains, domain controllers, member servers, services, applications, and workstations.
• Review and analysis of the structure, configuration, and related documentation for all critical business applications, such as MS Exchange, SQL, Lotus Notes, etc.
• Review and analysis of existing network layout and related documentation, including internet and WAN configuration and performance.
• Review and analysis of any existing auditing policies and capabilities.
• Interviews with key IT personnel.
• Generation and delivery of a final report that includes all findings and detailed recommendations to achieve immediate and long-term improvements.  The report also provides details on any mitigating circumstances that may affect how certain recommendations are implemented.

Benefits

• A clear understanding of how your Active Directory design and overall computing environment is meeting your business objectives.
• A clear view of your options for implementing immediate improvements and long-term scalable solutions that will minimize TCO and maximize ROI.

Requirements

The following criteria must be met in order to gain maximum benefit from this service:

• Access to and availability of IT administrators and other key IT personnel for discussion and interviews.
• Local and domain administrator (root) access to existing servers to gather the level of data needed to perform a complete analysis.

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