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Topic 3, Alpine Skihouse

Overview

Background

Alpine Skihouse designs and manufactures skis and ski accessories. The corporate headquarters for the company is located in London. The company has a design office in Rome and sales offices in Paris, Los Angeles, and Boston. The design team director works in the Rome office.

The company plans to implement Skype for Business Server 2015 to address their unified communications needs. The company currently has traditional PBX implementations in each office location and uses a dial-in conferencing system that is hosted on their internal PBX.

The number of users in each office is shown in the following table:

Remote connectivity to all corporate resources and services is provided by SSL virtual private network (VPN) only. The current VPN solution tunnels all traffic to the office. Internet facing services cannot be reached directly from users laptops when they are travelling.

Problem statements

During the requirements gathering process for the Skype for Business deployment project, users reported the following issues:

– Users based in the United States report that they experience poor audio and video quality when they conduct meetings with users that are not located in the United States.

– Users based in the United States report that they experience poor audio and video-quality when they conduct meetings and calls while they remotely connected to the office.

– The design learn director would like customers to be greeted in the Italian language when they use dial-in conferencing to join meetings.

– The sales team director organizes daily alignment meetings with local sales teams. He reports that there are issues with the quality of the audio and video.

Proposed solution

The following table shows the proposed London Skype for Business Server 2015 server architecture and IP addresses:

London:

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles office has a Standard Edition Skype for Business Server 2015 server. The server uses the IP address 192.168.30.21.

Requirements

Business Requirements

The company has identified the following business requirements:

– Users must be able to access all Skype for Business services when they work remotely.

– The solution must support meetings with up to 10,000 users.

– The solution must be highly available, and must withstand the loss of a single component at any point in with as little interruption of service as passable.

– The language used by Skype for Business services must be localized wherever possible.

– The leadership team in the Americas region hosts an All Hands meeting for all employees four times per year. All employees are requested to join this meeting. You must not install any additional servers to support this, requirement.

Technical Requirements

The company has identified the following technical requirements:

– The SQL team has completed an upgrade of the entire SQL Server to the latest version. They require every SQL Server to use a SQL Always On Availability Group as the high availability (HA) option.

– There is e data (enter within the Boston site.

– You must use the secondary data center in London to minimize the impact to users in the event of a single-site disaster.

– Media traffic must only be encrypted once.

– You must use the Skype for Business Management Shell Invoked-CsComputerFailOver and Invoke-CsComputerFaiIBack cmdlets to perform maintenance actions during dairy operations

– You must implement Domain Name System (ONS) load balancing wherever possible.

DRAG DROP

You need to configure the Domain Name System (DNS) records.

What should you do? To answer, drag the appropriate IP address or IP address range to the correct DNS record. Each IP address may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

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