Design and Deployment


Embrionic have focused their skills and abilities heavily around the directory. It is the central component that dictates whether an infrastructure and therefore a business can function successfully.

We have many years experience in designing a core directory platform based around Microsoft technologies and the integration of third party  products. Embrionic are proud of delivering immediate business benefit to many customers and have been involved in providing Active Directory platforms to meet many vertical market goals from small manufacturing facilities to a two thousand five hundred domain controller branch retail Banking platform.

Very few directory specialists can claim to have had their skills proven and scaled to this level.


What is Active Directory


Microsoft Active Directory is the leading Directory services architecture available for the Windows platform and has been intrinsic to the operation of an efficient Windows environment since its introduction in 1999. Currently it is in its second iteration forming the basis of the Windows Server 2003 directory offering.

Many organisations have yet to consider moving to Active Directory either due to the concerns about the complexity or volume of work in migrating from their legacy Windows NT4 platforms.


Why Active Directory


There has been a lot of confusion around Active Directory and why it is deployed. Embrionic believes it's main function is to enable organisations to better manage and leverage their Windows investment and provide them with a centralised master repository.


Major Benefits of Active Directory


A properly deployed and configured Active Directory can deliver the following centralised benefits:

  • Enterprise application configuration (i.e. Exchange 2003)

  • User, group and printer management

  • User and desktop configuration and control

  • Security across the Enterprise

  • Application delivery

  • Roaming user and secure logon services

  • Certificate Management

Embrionic will address the difficulties of configuration and migration which are generally ill-understood through our proven project methodologies, experience in deploying to organisations from 10 users to 100,000 users, and knowledge gained from performing such Active Directory design and deployment.