Infrastructure
To provide the required groundwork for the remaining part of this proposal, our first step will be upgrading the current infrastructure from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 R2. We will be specifically using the Datacenter edition due to its unlimited virtual instance …show more content…
Doing so will allow each branch office to setup their own private network for themselves but still allow communication with the other branch offices and the headquarters. At the headquarters on the DC we will be installing Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) to control the routing. Even though we currently only have five offices, it will be better for this configuration to use dynamic routing. This allows the DC to broadcast the routing table instead of having to setup each site individually and the remote routers use these tables to setup their own routing tables (TestOut, 2017). This sounds like an unsecure design but there are security features that are put in place. For security services, we will input only the routes we will be accepting into our routing table. This will keep unwanted request from being added unintentionally. Then there are neighbors which tells our network who we will be talking