Nope, hardly that many users. We're talking less than 100 users for most of our remote sites.
Deploying RWDCs to each site is a practice here that long pre-dates me, and even our department (for a number of years, each site was fairly autonomous, with no formal internal infrastructure team). Changing over to RODCs is something worth considering, though, along with 2008R2 Core. I may bring it up at the next staff meeting. Thanks, Jonathan On Jun 13, 2012 5:59 PM, "Free, Bob" <[email protected]> wrote: > Not knowing your specific requirements, especially WRT to user > population, for file/print, at first blush I’d think cached credentials > with more of a focus on resilient connectivity would be the best solution. > **** > > ** ** > > I’m a firm believer that RWDCs only go in DataCenters with the attendant > physical security. If you deploy to the branch, that is the realm of the > RODC but it carries its own inherent complexities.**** > > ** ** > > Maybe your idea of a remote office is many hundreds or thousands of users > and I’m all wet. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:01 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* [dkim-failure] RE: Active Directory Appliance?**** > > ** ** > > Authentication survivability at the remote site for access to local > resources (primarily file and print).**** > > On Jun 13, 2012 4:52 PM, "Free, Bob" <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > I have never come across such a beast.**** > > **** > > Question in my mind would be more like “why are you deploying DCs > remotely” **** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:20 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* [dkim-failure] 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] > 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**** > > ~ 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**** > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
