This project will explore analysis of alternatives available for deployment of applications for an enterprise. The goal of the project is to perform a market survey of the best reviewed and used workstation deployment solutions, choose and test the top three tools, and provide a recommendation to the organization for the best tool for their needs and instruction on basic initial setup. Additional aspects of the goal is to look for a tool that will push an image to a virtual machine system to make the workstation operable, determine metrics based off requirements on how to make measurements, and find a tool that meets the requirements of the sponsor.
The requirements for the tool include being able to deploy windows 10 and 11 and windows server 2019 for virtualization. The tool should also be able to deploy red hat enterprise Linus 7 and 8, Ubuntu, and Apple OSX. The tool should be able to support multiple users, have configurable settings on workstations to meet security requirements, the ability to apply updates, and the ability to support various models. In addition, the tool should be able to encrypt the hard drive, preferably through TMP encryption, or through Bitlocker or LUCKX. It should be able to join a central management system, such as active directory or redhat, and it should be able to run custom scripts. Finally, it should be able to deploy on desktop or laptop withing two hours and deploy 25 systems simultaneously.
The scope of the project will look at over 10 or more products that meet requirements, creating a grid for the products and requirements, and choosing the top three products for testing. The first milestone will be this review of many different products, and for the next milestone, testing the requirements and documenting our findings and which product works best will be the goal. Finally, the last milestone will be to have the working environments for the top three products. There will be an executive summary required for the project, which includes the scope of the project, what was done to accomplish the analysis, what the results were, and conclusions and recommendations
Members: Gage Coffia, Elijah Brooks, Sean Richards, Keegan Fleeman, Daniel Mengistie
Affiliation: IT Capstone
Semester: Spring 2022
Course: https://catalog.kennesaw.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=54&coid=86476
Department: https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/it/
University: https://www.kennesaw.edu