Overview
As part of our migration to an Active Directory environment, we're hosting a small proof of concept pilot during the Spring of 2007 so that our technical partners can work with us to "shake out the bugs" in our deployment plans.
A small group of campus partners who are able to commit the resources required to meet regularly and supply the time and equipment for a thorough technical evaluation have been identified and will soon be contacted to work with us during the pilot phase.
We will work to incorporate their feedback, and host discussions regarding their finding in our forums.
What we're testing during the pilot
- Account creation and password syncronization, including renames and deactivations
- Login without problems using existing Unity accounts (MIT Kerberos credentials).
- Printing, including automatic print driver installation, accurate WolfCopy charging, and print job management.
- Application delivery, including being able to locate an application you want to run and launch that application without problems.
- Workstation installation, being able to install the target environment on your hardware. In addition, you should be able to simply join the Unity.AD domain in order to receive some services.
- Pilot environment available via VCL
- Performance, including workstation installation speed, application installation speed, login speed, application launch speed are acceptable.
- File services, including being able locate files in DFS, Save a file, logout, login, file is still there. AFS access for the new environment must be addressed.
- Workstation management, including the disabling of roaming profiles on a group of workstations.
- Configuration of applications and personalized settings, for users with and without roaming profiles.
- Population of AD groups from authoritative sources, to provide easy and automatic management of resources
- Remote assistance.
- Web authentication based on AD groups.
What will not be in the pilot
- Fully clustered and fault tolerant filesystems.
- End user ready documentation and tools
- Help desk support
- Distributed management in several areas. Microsys staff may be required for routine tasks that will be delegated when we go production.
- All AD group syncronization will not be active.
What might be in the pilot
- Remote (off campus) access to the filesystem.
- PXE based installations.
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