Homeowners Resource Center Case Study
The Company:
Homeowners Resource Center is located in Dunmore, PA. They service local homeowners by assisting them with home renovations and the financing of these fixes.
The Problem:
They had an aging NT 4.0 PDC system that was on the edge of failing. It was slowing down productivity and making daily administrative tasks more difficult. Their existing server needed to be rebooted almost daily, causing downtime on the client side. In addition, there was no backup solution in place. Other servers they had preexisting on the network were a Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server 2000 and another Windows 2000 server hosting their proprietary accounting software. All servers and workstations logged onto the Windows NT4 BDC and relied on it for file sharing, WINS and all scripting.
The Solution:
Put in place a high end, reliable server to handle file sharing, logon events, and a centralized backup server. To accomplish this, first, our engineer upgraded the existing NT domain to a more modern active directory infrastructure. In order to do this, we created an NT4 PDC server by first using Microsoft Virtual Server and then migrated it to Windows Server 2003. Once the migration was complete, we upgraded the domain to Active directory. This process took all the NT accounts and converted them to a better, more streamlined organizational structure. This step also removed approximately 30+ hours of initial setup by not having to reconfigure each workstation to the “new” domain. After the migration, a centralized backup solution was put in place, allowing all servers to backup to the new server utilizing one set of tapes, as opposed to having multiple tape sets from each server.
The Benefits:
- Can support new applications as they come to market
- Gained a reliable, scalable, and agile platform for doing business, now and in the future
- Can support new applications as they come to market
- Increased office productivity with less downtime
- Dependable data backup solution
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