As I understood it, these were the issues MS faced in considering the possibility of multiple domains on one server. Maybe you could have a server with multiple offline replicas of domains, and if the DC for one of those went down, the replica could be brought online as a DC until the DC could be brought back up. Or something like that?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Rich Milburn MCSE, Microsoft MVP - Directory Services Sr Network Analyst, Field Platform Development Applebee's International, Inc. 4551 W. 107th St Overland Park, KS 66207 913-967-2819 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MOIR Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:17 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory wish list How would LDAP apps easily address multiple AD domains hosted on one server? What if you wanted to make this box a GC for more than one domain? How easily can you configure apps like Exchange to cope with this? I say "easily" because you talk about SMEs using this function, which are the places that might be less well equipped to figure out the support impact on those apps from having to make them work with this arrangement. Or the cost of buying and implementing upgrades that figure it out for them... that money we saved on the seperate hardware boxes just went bye-bye... Oh well, at least multiple domains on one hardware box *sounds* cool. Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Kaiser Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory wish list I'd also like to see the ability to run DCs for multiple domains on the same server. SMBs with limited resources balk at having to buy additional server hardware for redundancy on multiple domains, especially when the AD load on the DCs is minimal. This feature sounds like an offshoot of your list below. If you can run AD as a service, it might not be that hard to allow multiple domains similar to multiple websites/DBs on one server... I remember discussing this with Stuart Kwan at DEC a couple of years ago. I hope it makes it into the mix... ********************** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 4:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory wish list > > Vista is the client OS. I don't believe they have named Longhorn > Server yet.I am voting for something like Windows Server 5.4.0 or > something like that. I realize that the marketing group would have > something to say about it but I figure the best thing from them is if > they pronounced their thoughts from the bottom of Lake Washington. > People don't install servers because they have cool names. > > The biggest non-NDA pieces that I have heard announced in conferences > or seen on the web already is the Read Only DC to limit security > exposure for WAN deployments, restartable AD that can be > stopped/started as necessary, DA/Admin separation so that you can have > an Admin on a DC that "can't" achieve Domain-wide DA level rights, and > DCs running on Server Foundation or now its called Server Core which > is a GUI-challenged Windows Server. > > I can also say that there are a myriad of GUI updates for the Admin > tools though I can't state specifics. BJ Whalen who was involved with > the GPMC project has been brought in to work on admin experience and > anyone who has worked with GPOs with and without GPMC know that he > really helped out. > > All in all, there is some very cool stuff and MS has really been > listening to the community on what they want and need. I know that > this list is watched for ideas and such and has been the source of > DCRs internally. So if you have ideas, spout them here, they will most > certainly be heard. They may not make Longhorn as it is getting a bit > late to add major changes but your ideas could make it into a later > rev. > > > joe > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Wood > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory wish list > > > Hi, > > With Windows Vista on it's way what's on people's wish list as far as > Active Directory is concerned? 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