How does system administration work in huge companies?

[TommyVercetti]

Such as a company like Microsoft or HP; Several dozen locations, with 100's of users at each location. I am talking about Windows administration. So there is one huge domain forest and each site is a domain in that forest? Does each site have a seperate windows administrator, or is there only one (or group of many) at the main site, who take care of all sites? Is there one guy in the entire company who knows the root password to every single server?

 

[cpals]

They have robots who take care of it....

Okay, now the real answers can come.

 

[Looney]

Unless the one guy actually works on all the systems, i doubt he knows the root password for all the systems.

 

[rpc64]

I'm sure if they are that big they would have admins at every site

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: cpals
They have robots who take care of it....

Okay, now the real answers can come.

Hehe

Cheers cpals :beer:

 

[KK]

We have hundreds of sites, and loads of different systems. We have various ways to log onto the network, if we need to join a particular LAN,WAN then you gotta contact that particular administrator for rights. Of course most of our systems we use have their own administrators, so it's a PITA trying to figure out who we need to contact.

KK

 

[cchen]

Administrators at every site

 

[djdrastic]

Site Admins , For Every Place . You Use Trusts and AGUDLP to help you to go through the network.It could be made easier by just one or two domains , between multitudes of Trees but these tend to be error prone due to WAN reliability problems.NEVER underestimate POLITICS in the layout of the IS design !

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Such as a company like Microsoft or HP; Several dozen locations, with 100's of users at each location. I am talking about Windows administration. So there is one huge domain forest and each site is a domain in that forest? Does each site have a seperate windows administrator, or is there only one (or group of many) at the main site, who take care of all sites? Is there one guy in the entire company who knows the root password to every single server?

Internally MS has many domains that have established trusts with each other. The domains have sets of IT folks working around the clock to ensure everything is running smoothly, In redmond i would think that the IT group has probably around 500 people working including developers, testers, pms, management, etc. They run an extremely tight ship and the IT dept. at MS is hands down the best ive seen anywhere.

 

[iwearnosox]

We used to be cagemates with google and hotmail at exodus SC3- basically the intarweb infrastructure building. Watching the drones walk around replacing and fixing the machines was painful, there were so many of them (machines) it was a full time job, walking around like a robot!

 

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