The following diagram gives you an overview of the relevant parts of infrastructure within The Company:
The servers you see do not in any way represent any scaling scenario, but rather show the different functions I will be using in my examples in this book.
In the following table, you will find a short summary of the systems involved, so that when they are referenced in the book later on, you will have an idea about their usage:
|
System |
Usage |
Products installed/to be installed |
|---|---|---|
|
Domain Controller for the Active Directory domain |
AD DS and DNS role installed. | |
|
Enterprise Root Certification Authority. The Company uses only a one-layer PKI without any HSM. |
AD CS, including Web Enrollment role, installed | |
|
Central Microsoft SQL Server used by many systems. Among these systems are the HR and Phone systems. |
SQL Server 2008 R2, including Integration Services, installed. | |
|
E-mail system. |
Exchange 2010 installed. | |
|
Remote Desktop system used by administrators. |
Remote Desktop Services role installed. | |
|
The Company firewall. |
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 installed. | |
|
The remote access solution used by The Company. |
Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 installed. | |
|
The test and development server for FIM. |
SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2008. FIM Sync, Service and Portal will be installed. | |
|
The FIM Synchronization server. |
FIM Synchronization Service will be installed. | |
|
The FIM Web Service and Portal server. |
FIM Service and FIM Portal will be installed. | |
|
The FIM Certificate Management Server |
FIM CM Service and Portal will be installed. | |
|
The FIM Password Registration and Reset server. |
FIM Password Registration and Reset will be installed. | |
|
SCSM Management Server. Used by FIM Reporting. |
SQL Server 2008 R2 and System Center Service Manager will be installed. | |
|
SCSM Data Warehouse Server. Used by FIM Reporting. |
SQL Server 2008 R2 and System Center Service Manager will be installed. |
All systems have Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as the operating system.
The products installed/to be installed show the status of the systems when we start our journey with The Company in this book. Details about the features and products already installed will be explained in Chapter 2, Installation.
The Active Directory domain within The Company is ad.company.com, using AD as the NetBIOS name. The public domain used by The Company is company.com; this is also the primary email domain used.