RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

[Craig Cerino]

What are you using to backup?   Most backup applications ( i.e. Veritas) will mail notifications via the SMTP protocol with no need for an actual mail client.   I concur with Joe - -you should run as little (un-needed) applications on a DC as possible - -you’re asking for trouble with Outlook on a DC   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:44 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC   Frank,   The manager should really be asking for “a notification” and let you figure out the best way to make that happen—not specify the “how” which this list roundly trounced (while I was trouncing turkey on Thursday.)   I’ve used blat on a member server (not a dc, though).  There were several other simple suggestions.  The tricky bit is to get the manager to focus on the “end” and not the “means.” Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services IT | Information Technology Agilent Technologies (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com ----------------------------------------------  "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war"  - Anthony, in Julius Caesar III i.  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:46 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC   Your manager is a soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organ.   Every new piece of software added to any machine is new possible threat vector. DCs are the bastion of your Windows network security. You run the absolute minimum on a DC that you can run (yes SBS makes me squeamish but that isn't a surprise to Susan). I don't think it is ever a good idea to run Outlook on any server except maybe a TS and the admins better not ever launch it. Outlook is not an email server, it is a client app, when someone tells me they need it for their server app, I laugh and tell them to find a better app or another way.     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:39 AM To: Active Subject: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC Hi all,   I have a problem whereby our I've been asked by a manager to install outlook on our DC's to allow us to email back the services team when backups have failed.   I am dead against this, I have just managed to split the DC & File and Print roles and reduce the number of domain admins.   My gut feeling is against this, though I have no technical reason why this is bad?   Does anyone have any views or advice on this matter? Any scenerio's that could occur would be nice...   thanks Frank                   Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.