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MGB-13 joins workshop for automated information system By Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte - The personnel of Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Regional Field Office XIII participated in the Active Directory Domain Services Training-Workshop from January 29 to 31, 2020 held at the MGB Central Office, Manila. The activity is in line with MGB’s vision of a fully automated information system by 2023 and as part of the plan, it has already completed the Phase I of the improvement of MGB’s network by deploying the infrastructure and network development.
such as users, computers, printers, and services. With this service in place, administrators can easily manage and store information about resources from a network as well as application data in a distributed database.
The setup of servers, network equipment, and other hardware relating In addition, assigning and to the endeavor were emplaced in the enforcing security policies for all central and regional offices. computers and installing or updating software can be implemented with During the training-workshop, the ease. participants prepared for the Phase II of the improvement of MGB network such On the first day of the trainingas the implementation of the Microsoft workshop, Jeffrey Ledesma, ICT officer Active Directory Domain Services (AD of Information Systems Group-Planning, DS). Policy and International Affairs Division of MGB Central Office, discussed the As the foundation for distributed objectives of the training-workshop. networks built on Windows server operating systems that use servers as Also, a review of the AD DS training domain controllers, AD DS provides that was conducted in 2018 at NTT secure, structured and hierarchical Data Philippines was carried out as a data storage for objects in a network refresher for all participants especially
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