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Final Project

Configuring a Windows Client Operating System (50%)

OBJECTIVE

The objectives of this project are to:

Install the Windows 10 operating system

Configure multiple partitions and file systems

Set up users, groups, and local security

Install and configure a printing environment

Implement system fault-tolerance measures

DESCRIPTION

This project will test your ability to install, configure, and administer a Windows 10 system. You will need to demonstrate a variety of skills that you have acquired throughout the course. You will be using many of the procedures that you have learned to implement a solution in a typical business setting.

MATERIALS REQUIRED

To complete this project, you will require:

A PC with a DVD drive or USB port that meets or exceeds the minimum hardware

requirements of Windows 10

The Windows 10 Installation DVD or USB Flash drive

A network configuration information sheet (provided by your instructor if applicable)

INSTRUCTIONS

You have been tasked with implementing a Windows 10 system in a manufacturing plant where workers

from several different departments will periodically require access to their respective data. To separate

the information stored for each department, a decision has been made to divide the system hard drive

into four separate partitions. For additional security, different user and group accounts will be created

and a local security policy will be configured. The system will also be used for printing documents, with

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various levels of access for particular groups of workers. Finally, to secure the system against hardware

failures and software corruption, some fault-tolerance measures will need to be undertaken.

The instructions given below will guide you through the steps required to successfully implement the

necessary solution.

Step 1. Installing 10

You have been given a PC with an empty hard drive and you will be installing Windows 10 using the

Windows 10 Installation DVD and the local DVD drive or Windows 10 on a Flash drive. Start your

installation by booting the system from the DVD or Flash drive. As you proceed, follow the steps listed

below:

If you encounter any partitions or operating systems on the system, remove them.

Create a 20GB main partition to host 7 operating system files. Leave the remaining space

on the hard drive unpartitioned for now.

In the networking portion of the installation, unless advised otherwise by your instructor,

assume the computer is not connected to a network.

Step 2. Setting up multiple partitions

Create three more partitions of equal size. Format them so that you can implement file

system security on all three.

Set up the three partitions as mounted volumes connecting to three folders on the main

20GB partition. Name the three folders: Inventory, Production, and Quality Control.

(Hint: make sure you have the appropriate file system on all the partitions.)

Step 3. Creating and configuring user and group accounts

Create the users: Isabel, Peter, and Cathy. All of these users should be able to use the

system and save files but none of them should be able to install software or make changes to the

system files and settings. (Hint: use an existing built-in group.)

Create the users: Irene, Paul, and Chris. These users should be able to install software and

make file and setting changes to the system but they should not be able to read files belonging to

other users. (Hint: use an existing built-in group.)

Create the users Steve and Sarah. They should have full administrative access to the

system. (Hint: use an existing built-in group.)

Create four groups called: Inventory, Production, Quality Control, and Supervisors.

Place users in the appropriate groups as outlined in the table below:

Group	Members
Inventory	Irene, Isabel
Production	Paul, Peter
Quality Control	Cathy, Chris
Supervisors	Sarah

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Set up folder permissions so that members of each of the three groups Inventory,

Production, and Quality Control have full access to their respective folders created in step 2

above, but no access to the other two folders. Members of the Supervisors group should have full

access to all three folders. Ensure that the same security is in place when accessing the contents

of the folders directly through the corresponding partition drive letters, not just through the

mounted volumes. Note: Access through the system group Everyone must not be available to

these folders for this security scheme to be implemented correctly.

Step 4. Setting up local security policies

Implement the following policies in the system:

Passwords must be changed every 30 days.

Each user is required to use at least eight unique passwords before they are allowed to use

a password that they have previously used.

Any user logging into the system should be greeted with the following warning: Warning:

only authorized personnel is permitted to log on to this system.

The username of the user who last logged on to the system should not be displayed on the

logon screen.

Step 5. Setting up a printing environment

Create a local Canon Bubble Jet BJC-8000 printer on LPT1 and share it with the name

Bubblejet1. Make it available between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Set up all members of the three groups you created: Inventory, Production, and Quality

Control, to be allowed to print on this printer. Do not allow just anybody to print. Hint: remove

one of the default printing permissions.

Ensure that the two members of the Supervisors group have full control over the print jobs

and the printer.

Step 6. Implementing system fault-tolerance measures

Set up an alert that will send a message to Steve whenever the %Processor Time counter

goes above 60%. Make sure an entry is recorded in the application event log when the alert is

triggered

Create a backup schedule to back up all components of the System State at 11:00 p.m.

every Friday. Set backup destination file to C:\system_state.bkf

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Work must be submitted in the correct file type and be properly labelled as per the College naming

convention:

NAME_COURSE_ASSIGNMENT. E.g. XuXiaLing_FM50D_A01.

Your project must contain the following items:

The project title page

This document

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GRADING CRITERIA

Assignment Value: 50%

You will be graded on:

Project component Points

Presentation Quality (presence of all required elements including title page, neatness) 10%

Step 1: Installing Windows 10 25%

Step 2: Setting up multiple partitions 15%

Step 3: Creating and configuring user and group accounts 15%

Step 4: Setting up local security policies 10%

Step 5: Setting up a printing environment 10%

Step 6: Implementing system fault-tolerance measures 15%

The total number of possible points is: 100%

PENALTIES

For each day that a project is late, 5% will be deducted.

Projects that are more than three days late will earn a maximum score of 60%.

Projects that contain a virus must be resubmitted and will earn a maximum of 60%