Active Directory Domain Services – NET Domain

DESCRIPTION
Active Directory (AD) service is the University authentication directory that supports
enterprise systems. It also provides IT mechanisms for centralizing desktop and server
management as well as domain administration tools. This service allows for a single user
name to access enterprise systems such as: administrative and academic computers,
ePortfolio, eCommunity, WebCourses, SharePoint, and several other university systems.
UCF IT will continue to add applications and services such as Microsoft Exchange and
unified communications to the domain. Active Directory service also provides financial
benefits to campus units including reducing extraneous resources, centralized account
provisioning, improving security, and reducing the need for departmental servers. Price
is per domain user.

FUNCTIONALITY LIST
Allows logon and access to services that are provided by the NET domain. Getting an AD
account in the NET domain is the first building block in getting access to tiered services
that are provided exclusively via domain access. IT staff will be given the ability to
manage user accounts through a web-based Intranet portal.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Grants the customer the ability to log on to the Active Directory NET domain via a
domain-joined workstation or a VPN connection for non-domain computers. IT staff
will be given one Organization Unit to manage network resources. UCF IT does not
provide desktop support or perform the migration. A domain trust is provided that will
be removed twelve months from the start date or at the end of the migration, whichever
comes first.

INCLUDED SERVICE COMPONENTS – OVERVIEW:
Logon and authentication to the Active Directory NET domain. If a domain-joined
computer is used to access the NET domain, group policies are assigned to the
workstation and user account that provide (among other things) Operating System
patching services on a regular interval that keep domain-joined systems up-to-date.

OPTIONAL SERVICE COMPONENTS – OVERVIEW:
File Storage
Network Printing
SharePoint Services