The Core Backbone of an Infrastructure
While Active Directory provides the core backbone to any Windows infrastructure, few organizations are able to exploit its full potential. In addition, the changing business environment due to mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs, as well as increasing demands for remote-working, single sign-on and their enabling technologies such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Services, mean that an IT organization needs an adaptable and agile approach to Directory Services and be prepared for change.

Windows Server 2003 and 2008
1E have helped a wide range of both small and large organizations to deploy Windows 2000 and 2003 over the past few years to gain measurable improvements in the overall IT infrastructure and service. Our consultants have been working with Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT4 since their beta days and have gained a broad and in-depth technical knowledge of the IT platforms, combined with real-world experience of how to get the best from an upgraded IT infrastructure.

The Microsoft Windows 2008 Server platform adds a number of new features and associated technologies such as Identity and Lifecycle Manager 2007 to enable easier management and security of large complex environments, especially branch office and federated organizations - for example Directory Auditing, Read-Only domain controllers and updates and extensions to Group Policy among many other new features.

1E Directory Services Engagements include:

•	Through best-practice guidance and consulting, 1E has helped many organizations to refine and adapt their AD infrastructure to support organizational change and provide better granularity of Administration and IT policy.
•	1E can provide the design and detailed implementation steps to help organizations optimize AD replication and domain controller placement to support Branch Office and complex WAN infrastructures and federated but inter-connected organizations.
•	Optimization of end-user settings and management (Roaming User Profiles, Group Policies, Distributed File Systems) to maximize the end-user experience and benefits of the new technology, while minimizing IT management overhead.
•	1E have extensive experience of helping organizations to implement Certificate Services and a full-blown PKI infrastructure to extend the security and accessibility of common directory services and integrate with Line of Business (LOB) applications.

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