Creating a Deployment Roadmap

Scenario 2: Multinational Consumer and Industrial Manufacturer

Scenario 2 is based on a highly decentralized business organization with a distributed IT environment comprised of 175 separate operating companies. Manufacturing and assembly take place in 49 countries on six continents. They employ approximately 390,000 employees worldwide who speak approximately 120 different languages. A common interface and implementation process is required to ease transition for all of the operating companies and to reduce deployment support costs. All of the operating companies want to address the following common issues:

Provide customers with easy access to a common set of knowledge relevant to the company and its business.
Reduce IT administration costs and improve service by creating one forest.
Consolidate Windows NT 4.0–based servers for upgrading.
Provide a common IT environment for all of the operating companies.
Set guidelines for Windows 2000 deployment throughout the organization that will provide a stable IT environment and prevent individual groups from deploying separate products or features that are not supported by the central IT department.
Communicate IT issues throughout all operating companies.
Design Active Directory effectively because it enables many other Windows 2000 features.