Introduction

Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) is an integrated set of service solutions based on architectural guidance for typical enterprise scenarios.

The File and Print Services Blueprint outlined the options available for the delivery of these two services and the technologies available to support them. This guide provides a detailed breakdown of the exact design choices and requirements for providing file and print services in the scenarios described for the Centralized Data Center (CDC) and the Satellite Branch Office (SBO). Additional information about these scenarios is available in the Introduction to Windows Server System Reference Architecture document.

Although often discussed together, file and print services can be defined and deployed separately. This guide is split into two sections-file services and print services.

Designing a service consists of the following design steps:

During each of these steps, the chosen technology solution may be required to meet specific service-level design goals for availability, security, and scalability. How these design goals are incorporated may either be implicit in the logical or physical design or they may be explained in separate sections later in this guide.

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Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is written for architects and implementation engineers responsible for designing and deploying file and print technologies. The reader of this guide is expected to have an understanding and some practical experience of the business, user and technical requirements for file creation, storage and transmission as well as physical and logical printing requirements for the business scenarios outlined in this document

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Knowledge Prerequisites

The reader should have a practitioner-level understanding of file and print infrastructure and networking. In addition, the reader should have good working knowledge of operating systems and server hardware along with the types of applications that run on them.

The reader is also expected to have some knowledge and understanding of the following:

File and print services depend on other services, primarily the storage and network architectures; underlying functions such as security are also critical. Therefore, the reader is expected to have a working knowledge of the technologies that support these architectures as well as Windows operating systems.

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