The environment

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:

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.