You are the IT administrator of a small company. The CTO of your company has come to you with a request to create an upgrade and deployment plan to get the existing Windows $2016$ environment to the latest and greatest software.

The existing environment consists of:

$3$ Windows $2016$ Active Directory servers

$2$ Microsoft SQL $2016$ Servers

$2$ Microsoft Exchange $2016$ Email servers

$2$ Linux servers that are running Ubuntu $16\mathrm{.}04$

As part of this plan, your CTO has asked that a new test environment to be configured so that it can be upgraded to ensure any issues about compatibility can be caught.

Your task for this assignment will be to write a report $10$ pages in length and should cover the following three categories.

Develop an architecture diagram on the existing environment as well as the test environment.

How will the two environments communicate with each other