Your team has been hired by a large restaurant called Habibi's. Habibi's has now grown into a national chain with hundreds of locations. Each location has one Windows Server 2003 and many Windows XP desktop computers.
Your job is to set up the Windows Server 2003 so as to standardize operations so that software can be automatically deployed, servers can be remotely administered. Server files are backed up and provisions are made for disaster recovery. Desktop computers that use Windows XP should also be remotely supported.
1. Habibi's IT department wants to install Office 2003 and certain proprietary applications at each location as efficiently as possible. IT wants these applications to automatically repair themselves if they get corrupted. What must be done to make this happen? What additional features of group policy might be useful to Habibi's?
2. What features of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP might IT use to provide remote support?
3. IT wants to make sure that the Windows Server 2003 computers are as protected as possible from disasters and in the event of a disaster, recovery will be as quick as possible. What advice would you offer IT concerning protecting the server, doing backups, using automated system recovery, and recovering from various startup problems?
4. Which Windows Server 2003 tools and third party utilities might IT use to monitor server performance?