Active Directory

Riordan Manufacturing Active Directory

Luis Sanchez Rivera

POS 421

University of Phoenix

April 21, 2012

Riordan Manufacturing Active Directory

Riordan Manufacturing or “RM” is a company that operates throughout the world and has offices throughout the United States and China. With such a broad base of operation, RM requires a means to make communication and operations streamline and allow individual plants the ability to tap into resources necessary to complete the job. Looking back at past operations, RM has run into many problems that limited their ability to communicate effectively between individual plants. By implementing a Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory, many of the problems that have been evident will no longer exist. Many of the mundane and cumbersome operations that create issues can be dealt with by changing the functions into less complex tasks as noted in an article about Active Directory, “A directory service presents the opportunity to consolidate the number of repositories in use and realize a number of benefits in doing so: reduced administrative overheads, enhanced operational efficiency and tighter control over the security of user information,” (Mohamed. 2005)

Riordan Manufacturing corporate headquarters located in San Jose California will be the focal point of consolidation efforts. The departments and facilities will be under the headquarters plant. In essence, Riordan Manufacturing goal is to create a tree using various grouping to help streamline the flow of information between plants and departments in order to speed up processes and sharing of information. The tree root working in RM’s headquarters, will then branch out into subgroups or Organizational Units “OU”. Organizational Units allow groups to break into a logical hierarchal structure that allows administrators to delegate control using permissions.

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