"In combination, these would definitely be nice for larger environments that have multiple Domain's with cutting down on hardware costs. Although I suppose individual DC's would need to be a bit beefier, at least there'd be a decrease in physical space requirements and some efficiencies gained somewhere. It would also help for DR type scenarios, too."
As Joe mentioned, server virtualization came up often at DEC. Someone pointed out that you can have multiple DCs on a single box using VMWare/Virtual Server. Support issues do come up, and of course you'll have to beef up the box to handle the load that would normally be distributed across multiple boxes, but it's something you can do today. Hunter -----Original Message----- From: David Adner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DEC Chatter - Was something else... > 1. Caching Domain Controllers - basically a DC that did 2. Multiple > domain hosting from a single DC. In combination, these would definitely be nice for larger environments that have multiple Domain's with cutting down on hardware costs. Although I suppose individual DC's would need to be a bit beefier, at least there'd be a decrease in physical space requirements and some efficiencies gained somewhere. It would also help for DR type scenarios, too. > 3. Ability to stop/start Active Directory on the fly as a normal > service. This has always been a big request of mine as having to reboot into a special mode just to perform certain DS maintenance really annoys me. Also, if DNS is installed with AD integrated zones, the DNS server should go into a caching mode while the DS service is temporarily offline. > 7. Ability to have multiple password/lockout/complexity policies per > domain A popular request, I'm sure. 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/
