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Stuff4U, our fictional retail chain, operates 80 stores across the United States. The company employs more than 5,000 people, including 1,000 at the home office. Each store is connected to the home office through T1. All data and applications are at headquarters, whose network is a 10-/100-Mbps LAN, with separate segments for each department.

Stuff4U needs a complete employee provisioning solution. The company's management is concerned with physical and logical security, so Stuff4U recently added electronic access requirements to the departments at headquarters. Logically, the organization needs to provide provisioning, employee life-cycle tracking and revoking across multiple disparate systems for all employees from a single solution.

The Stuff4U chain uses the following systems:

• PeopleSoft human resources system (Microsoft Windows 2000)

• Elevon (formerly Walker Interactive Systems) financials (IBM ES9000, OS/390)

• Legacy inventory and supplier feeds (IBM ES9000, OS/390)

• Check Point firewall (Windows NT 4.0)

• Novell 5.0 NDS for file sharing and printing services

• Windows NT Directory Services

• Sun Solaris 8.0

• Netscape Directory Server intranet

• Helpdesk

• Netscape extranet servers

• Windows 98 SE corporate desktop

• Lotus Domino

• AT&T WorldNet and Nokia VPN dial-up remote access

• Facilities management

• Physical security (electronic badge)