After a number of years of forced planning for saving money, we've finally been able to convince upper Management that the Production uptime that they complain is suffering because a given server is down is directly related to combining services on servers to save money.
It is a wonderful thing to be able to re-boot a DC or perform updates - knowing that for the time that it is out of service the other DCs in the environment are going to take care of the load. No user data is affected, no access to naming is affected. We now have an environment that sees about 10% the downtime that it did as little as 4 months ago. Now, if I can just continue to work on them to listen to us on AD Monitoring and Life Cycle (yes, Gil - NetPro is still very much alive AND desired!) Baby steps..... Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Other application/uses on DC's. Was: > OT: Exchange 2000 > > > It also could limit your upgrade/patch policy. Other > applications coexisting on DCs could prevent or limit > implementiing apatch until it was tested with those apps. It > could affect a windows 2003 upgrade. It could also affect > your backup/restore/diaster recovery policy. > > -------------------------- > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
