The Brooklyn Circus Network

Designed By: Jeremy WatkinsIT200Ed FisherFebruary 9, 2011

Background The Brooklyn Circus/BKc story

begins in 2006 in a quaint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York with the aim to strengthen consumers’ appreciation for classic aesthetics and antique motifs whilst upholding the pillars of modern design within a 100 year plan. Founded by graphic designer Ouigi Theodore and developed by an arsenal of visionaries fueled by a common purpose, this bustling junction of style and character is always an experience. At the brink of the establishments’ success the business set up a sister site in San Francisco, CA

Background con’t Sir & Madame is a men

and women’s boutique and lifestyle brand located in Chicago. The organization is founded by husband and wife, Brian and Autumn Merritt and they developed a partnership with the Brooklyn Circus owner to sell his merchandise in their boutique. They currently manage and secure their data on Windows Server 2008.

Bkc Active Directory Active Directory is a

service and stores information about the Brooklyn Circus’ users, data resources, and other services.

Active Directory also let’s the owners and administrators access and manipulate those resources.

Active Directory is a way to manage all elements of the BKC network, including computers, groups, users, domains, security policies, and any type of user-defined objects.

Bkc Global Catalog The Global Catalog is used to help

the Brooklyn Circus and Sir and Madame locate resources. The global catalog server also stores data on every user account, printer, and other essential software and hardware.

As seen in the design, the global catalog will store a complete replication of all Brooklyn Circus’ resources on the primary server and a partial replication of each resource on the other domains partition.

Global Catalog will authenticate users who log on, offer lookup and access to resources in other domains, maintain copies of attributes on each resource, and Active Directory elements.

Domain Name System (DNS) Active Directory is built around the

Domain Name System (DNS) and is configured on Windows Server 2008 for all three domains.

Active Directory will utilize DNS to convert computer and domain host names to a dotted decimal address and vice versa through a process known as Name Resolution.

Name Resolution will assist the employees of Brooklyn Circus and Sir and Madame to request information from the parent server.

With Windows Server 2008 operating at the forest functional level, it ensures new domains created within the forest operate at the forest functional level.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) The Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) will

allow all of the clients to share a smaller pool of IP addresses, if only a fraction of those client’s needs to be connected to the Internet at any given time.

With DHCP configured, it ensures that the same IP is given only to a specific machine every single time it connects and alleviates the need for network administrators to actually make configurations by hand.

When a new system configured to use DHCP comes online and requests configuration data, an IP address is leased to that system and will last three days by default.

Dynamic host configuration protocol (dhcp)con’t On boot-up, a connecting client

will issue a request to the network for its personal address assignment to the DHCP application service. The DHCP server ensures that uniquely-generated, dynamically allocated IP assignments are made to connecting clients, along with the server settings which may apply to the client connection.

DHCP automates not only the assignment of IP addresses but also subnet masks, default gateways, and other lease-related parameters.

Kerberos Transitive Trust Relationship The root server in New York serves

as the trusting domain and establishes a Kerberos Transitive Trust Relationship with the domain controller in San Francisco.

A transitive trust is also set in place between Sir and Madame and The Brooklyn Circus. Employees will have the ability to access resources of the other domains within the forest and each client will have the advantage to access Windows Sever 2008 through customized user profiles.

When the user logs on to their accounts a local user profile will be initiated automatically which they use to receive and maintain personalized settings.

Bkc Account Lockout Policy At the beginning of each session,

users will be required to enter their passwords mandated by the Account Lockout Policy.

The Account Lockout Policy is implemented to help protect an account from intruder s by locking it after five unsuccessful logon attempts.

With this arrangement, Brooklyn Circus possesses the rights to assign certain files and folders, access privileges, management of user accounts, and account setup policies will be delegated to the Sir and Madame organization administrator on behalf of the Brooklyn Circus.

Access Client Lists (ACLs) ACLs are listed privileges given to

user accounts or security groups which will grant access to shared resources.

Access Control Lists (ACLs) are assigned to the employees of Brooklyn Circus and Sir and Madame. All of the policies and ACLs will replicate throughout the network.

The owner and server administrator of Brooklyn Circus are the only members assigned Discretionary Access Client Lists (DACLs) and System Control Access Client Lists (SACLs) to manage who can access the company’s shared folders containing personnel policies.