The Campus Active Directory Project is a collaborative campus-wide effort headed by Information Technology Services.

This project guide has been created to share planning and progress on Windows 2000 deployment at UCSF. The report is organized into the following sections:

1. Project Introduction
2. Project Overview
3. Project Outline
4. Project Timeline
5. Milestones and Deliverables
6. Project Status
7. Project Resources
8. Next Steps

Please direct any questions or comments regarding the Campus Active Directory Project to:

• Bruce Levin, Campus Active Directory Project Manager, 415-476-9699

blevin@its.ucsf.edu

• Ian Tuller, Director, ITS Customer Support, Security, and Planning, 415-476-5097

ituller@its.ucsf.edu

1. Project Introduction

UCSF Currently has over 100 Windows NT domains supporting users distributed across all city and state wide UCSF locations. These independent workgroups suffer, as does the university as a whole, from a limited ability to share resources. These resources, such as users information, data, printers, etc., are connected only marginally through elaborate measures that are time and labor intensive and difficult to manage. Windows 2000 presents an opportunity to simplify this environment and to offer centralization of resources through a shared directory structure. There is strong agreement that the migration from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000 is a priority at UCSF and as such the necessary steps are:

1. Assess campus Windows computing environment and analyze feasibility of migrating to Windows 2000.
2. Create a high level Windows 2000/ Active Directory design and seek campus-wide agreement and participation.
3. Establish a Windows 2000 Enterprise Administration to manage the Windows migration and ongoing operations.
4. Plan a DNS and Active Directory Site Design.
5. Create a test environment to pilot DNS and Active Directory Site design.
6. Establish a centralized "root" domain that will serve as the host for all local campus domains.
7. Establish a tiered migration plan that allows for phased migration of campus departments.
8. Establish long term plans for managing the Windows 2000 infrastructure that includes:
• Centralizing IT and organizational resources
• Exploring shared application opportunities
• Exploiting the possibilities of integrating Active Directory with other campus-wide directory services.

2. Project Overview

The project overview provides a high level view of the main issues that exist in the current Windows NT and workgroup-based computing environments, the problems associated, and the potential solutions and benefits realized by migrating these environments to a shared Windows 2000 network.

Read the project overview

3. Project Outline

I. Assessment Phase: Complete February 16

II. Planning Phase: February 19 – Ongoing

III. Design Phase: March – June 15

IV. Test Phase: March – June 28

V. Production Phase: June 29 On-going

The primary milestones and deliverables of the Campus Active Directory Project are:

• The Assessment: Completed February 16, available at
  www.ucsf.edu/its/windows2000/assessment.html

• DNS and Site Design:
  Project outlines, details, and diagrams to be posted at
  www.ucsf.edu/its/windows2000/sitedesign.html

• Two Testing Environments:
  Testing plans and diagrams to be posted week of 4/16/01 at:
  www.ucsf.edu/its/windows2000/testing.html

• Deployment: All deployment steps will be outlined and made
  available beginning July 2001 at:
  www.ucsf.edu/its/windows2000/deployment.html

Project status will be posted at the beginning of each quarter at:
www.ucsf.edu/its/windows2000/status.html

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