Thanks for all your feedback guys. I am off to do some promoting,
member server promoting that is.
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your AD's fault tolerance with old
hardware?
I remember back in the days of our old 3500-user NT 4.0 domain, back when I
ran an administration group. We had a nice ProLiant server that was a 486.
We only had one of those. But because it was manageable through Insight
Agents, we decided to keep
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Even outside of Exchange I think it depends on how fast the box actually is
and how hard you hit AD.
For a box
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Even outside of Exchange I think it depends on how fast the box actually is
and how hard you
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Improving your AD's fault tolerance with old
hardware?
Don't mean to call you out, Joe, but ..
Didn't you use to run the PDC for that Widget factory on a very small (no,
itsy-bitsy) hardware? And didn't you explain at that time
I remember back in the days of our old 3500-user NT 4.0 domain, back when I
ran an administration group. We had a nice ProLiant server that was a 486.
We only had one of those. But because it was manageable through Insight
Agents, we decided to keep it and made it our PDC, since it wasn't
an old DC/GC
that's running like a dog. :-)
Tony
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Hi Danny,
I also agree that using not state-of-the-art hardware is better than missing
redundancy.
I've done multiple lag-site dcs virtualized on one physical hardware, used
clients or virtual machines for domain migrations as the update server, and
would also recommend to use better older
As the terrible lurker that I am and representing the around 20ish AD
crowd the SBS support crew in Los Colinas actually report that in their
setups they throw a Virtual Server on a beefy workstation, load up a
server OS and have the additional domain controller there in a virtual
setting to
