Active Directory Management

Janiad Ashraf

Systems\Citrix Administrator - Canadian Tire

Scarborough

************@*****.*** - 416-***-****

I am a hardworking, dedicated, goal oriented and a versatile IT professional with MCITP title and 5+ years

of experience, a quick learner, willing to learn more to help the team and the firm that I work for, as well as I

have outstanding individual and team-player skills, highly motivated, with a proven ability to get the job done

on time. Very flexible, passionate and dependable with a strong sense of responsibility.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Systems\Citrix Administrator

Canadian Tire - Toronto, ON - May 2013 to Present

Citrix XenApp

• Supported 24,000 users in Citrix environment

• Installed and configured Xenapp 5.0\6.0\6.5 on Servers 2008\2008R2

• Configured Web-Interface, customized the web-site for the company requirements

• Configured session reliability for auto reconnecting a session if it gets disconnected

• Created new and joined servers to existing farms in the environment and also published the applications

• Monitored and maintained the Citrix Xenapp 5.0\6.0\6.5 environment

• Troubleshot published applications, printing and Citrix policies using XenApp Advanced Configuration

• Configured and installed the Edgesite monitoring server for xenapp servers

• Configured the Active Directory policies, ICA sessions and printing that could affect the XenApp

• Created and configured zones and rerouted in case of failover

• Published streamed applications using Citrix Streaming Profiler for the clients and the server side

• Administered, Configuration Logging and Citrix Secure Gateway

• Recreated/refreshed Local Host Cache using DSMAINT command line

• Published and assigned the applications using Access Management Console for the users

• Troubleshot Independent Management Architecture (IMA) for issues

• Added and configured Xenapp servers 5.0\6.0\6.5 to an existing farm

• Troubleshot application compatibility, connectivity, updates issues

• Installed Xenapp plug-ins package for the clients

• Configured the Citrix XML service

• Updated and managed VDI\vDisks using PVS console

• Created and Deployed VDI with PVS console

Active Directory

• Administered monitored and managed the windows servers 2008\2008R2

• Assigned group policies using WMI filter, and Security filters

• Installed and configured an Read Only Domain Controller in the environment

• Troubleshot Citrix client's connectivity and network sharing issues

• Moved the FSMO roles in Active Directory by using the command-line NTDSUTIL

• Created and maintained user accounts and other resource objects in Active Directory

• Raised the functional levels and built trust between domains and forests

• Applied group policy objects on OU, Domain and site levels using Group Policy Management Console

• Syspreped, captured and integrated drivers using DISM into a WIM IMAGE, and deployed it

• Configured Replication topology; site-links, cost, interval, bridge-head, schedule

• Created profiles and configured Group Policies; created groups, and assigned sharing permissions

• Increased Forest Levels and Domain Levels to introduce 2008 Domain Controllers in test environment

• Installed and decommissioned Domain Controllers by running DCPROMO

• Integrated different types of drivers within the wim.image to create an golden image

• Configured Network settings, TCP/IP

• Backed up Active Directory, restored Active Directory by using Server Manager and WBADMIN

• Created users, groups and assigned share permissions

• Captured and deployed an image through WAIK using IMAGEX onto various computers

VMware Administrator

Citrix - Mississauga, ON - October 2011 to May 2013

Active Directory

• Installed and configured, windows server 2003/2008/2008R2

• Migrated Servers 2003 to 2008 in the environment

• Installed Domain Controllers, AD, GC and DNS by running DCPROMO

• Created and managed trust between the Domains and Forests

• Assigned specific servers as bridge-heads for replication

• Configured inter-site and intra-site replication topology

• Migrated Active Directory users, groups and OU using ADMT

• Configured roles, AD, DNS, DHCP and GC

• Created and maintained users and other objects in Active Directory

• Installed and configured Read Only Domain Controllers(RODCs)

• Introduced newer servers to the environment by raising the functional levels of domain/forest

• Created group scopes and groups

Citrix

• Installed, configured and maintained XenApp servers 4.5

• Published/unpublished applications with AppCenter console and also troubleshot any issues

• Troubleshot and monitored Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service

• Added 6.5 XenApp servers to an existing Farm

• Migrated XenApp servers 4.5 to 6.5 in the environment

• Recreated/refreshed Local Host Cache (LHC) using command line DSMAINT

• Managed and applied hotfixes for issues

• Configured session reliability so the client reconnects automatically

• Published applications using Citrix Streaming Profiler for the clients

• Configured the citrix policies and policy issues

• Installed plug-ins packages on client machines

• Enabled work space control to reconnect existing or disconnected sessions with session reliability

VMware

• Installed and configured the ESX 4.1\5.1\5.5 Servers

• Performed VM cold/hot migration and storage VMotion

• Managed power utilization with Distributed Power Management

• Managed, monitored, and troubleshot server health, and data storage

• Enabled High Availability, vMotion, DRS and DPM

• Converted physical server into virtual machines using VMware converter

• Kept power utilization and hardware expenses down • Installed and configured the VCenter Server

• Managed the VMware environment using VCenter

• Installed vSphere on client machines

• Cloned VM's and ran Sysprep to get rid of unique identifier

• Created Virtual Machines with different operating systems on ESX servers

• Managed the Resource pool

• Took snap-shots of existing Virtual Machines

Jr. Systems Analyst

Scotiabank - Scarborough, ON - June 2009 to August 2011

Active Directory

• Created users and managed other resource objects in Active Directory

• Configured and maintained Windows Servers 2008/2008R2

• Created and assigned Group Policy Objects on OU, Domain, Site level

• Created trust between the Domains and Forests

• Installed and configured the roles Active Directory, DNS, GC, DCHP

• Installed domain controllers by running DCPROMO

• Introduced 2008 servers by raising the Domain functional level in the test environment

• Deployed an MSI package using group policy object

• Created and configured sites; site-links, interval, schedule and cost

• Decommissioned Domain Controllers during migration by running DCPROMO

• Used ADSI to itemize and manage resources in Active Directory

• Attached WMI Filter to a Group Policy Object and Security Filter with Group Policies

• Configured replication topology; Sites, schedule, bridge-head, interval, subnets

Imaging & Windows

• Captured/deployed images using Windows Automated Installation Kit

• Created WinPE image with the Windows Pre-environment command prompt

• Integrated hardware drivers within the image by using DISM to create an golden image

• Syspreped to get rid of the SIDS and used IMAGEX to capture the image

• Acknowledged and resolved technical problems

• Deployed more than 200 operating systems by using IMAGEX

• Applied group policy object on OU, Domain and site level using GPMC

• Installed as well as configured the Windows Deployment Server (WDS)

• Troubleshot and provided solution to users for hardware/software issues

Projects

* In this migration project I upgraded from windows 2003 to 2008 environments by extending the Schema, Also

registered the Schema Master Role and added a snap-in. Moved the Operational Roles through NTDSUTIL

command line and through GUI based and decommissioned the servers 2003. Did a metadata cleanup

afterwards.

* In this deployment project I syspreped captured and deployed an image with Windows Automated Installed

KIT, using imageX. Integrated drivers off all the other hardware's into that image using DISM. And placed that

image in the Windows Deployment Server.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Technical Proficiencies

• Software's:

ImageX, MDT 2, WAIK, WMI, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, etc), Different types Of Anti Viruses,

Solar Winds.

• Virtualization:

Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0/6.0/6.5, Workstation, VMware ESXi 4.0/4.1, Hyper-V, Virtual PC.

• Window Servers:

Window Servers 2003, 2008, 2008R2, AD 2003, 2008, 2008R2, Windows 7, Vista, XP. Windows 98 and

Windows 2000.

• Directory Services:

Active Directory, Group Policy, Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT), DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, LDAP,

GPO, ADSI, GPMC, ADSI, VM monitoring, VSwitch settings

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