Your best bet then is to use a Server Core install of either 2008 or 2008 R2. It's supported, requires minimal patching/management and is ideally suited to remote management.
DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance? Not interested in anything home-brewed. On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100 Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free DNS and DHCP: free with OS Image it, lock it down tight and let 'er rip. Daniel Chenault [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] From: Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Appliance? My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our remote offices. Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience with them? TIA, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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