You are the IT administrator of a small company. The CTO of your company has come to you with a request to create an upgrade and deployment plan to get the existing Windows 2016 environment to the...

You are the IT administrator of a small company. The CTO of your company has come to you with a request to create an upgrade and deployment plan to get the existing Windows 2016 environment to the latest and greatest software.

The existing environment consists of:

3 Windows 2016 Active Directory servers

2 Microsoft SQL 2016 Servers

2 Microsoft Exchange 2016 Email servers

2 Linux servers that are running Ubuntu 16.04

As part of this plan, your CTO has asked that a new test environment to be configured so that it can be upgraded to ensure any issues about compatibility can be caught.

Your task for this assignment will be to write a report 10 pages in length and should cover the following three categories.

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   Develop an architecture diagram on the existing environment as well as the test environment.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   




2. 
   
   
   How will the two environments communicate with each other.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   




3. 
   
   
   Provide the enterprise hardware for the test environment. HINT: Focus on re-usability of resources.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   




4. 
   
   
   Provide a written explanation on the new software versions you picked that will be part of testing the upgrade.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   




5. 
   
   
   Provide a written explanation on why the hardware was selected.