Re: Copying Active directory?
- From: Brandon McCombs <none@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:28:17 -0500
jrice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Virtualization is a good alternative, and I have considered it. Does
Server 2005 R2 have any sort of trial period? This is for a Disaster
Recovery solution, so I have to have something that is rock solid.
Using an R2 version from Microsoft doesn't exactly make me think
"trouble free".
What is wrong with R2? Windows Server 2003 R2 is production ready so why wouldn't Virtual Server 2005 R2 be? For example, Windows Server 2003 R2 is basically R1 with some additional things added to it, sort of like going from Mac OSX 10.0 to 10.1. It includes builtin support for Services for Unix and contains code for ADS Federated Services. It also incorporates SP1.
To answer your original question, what is wrong with setting up your new servers so that they are part of the same domain as your original site's domain and configure them as their own site (create replication links, etc.)? When changes are made to you original site they will automatically get replicated to the DR domain controllers (this is all through basic LDAP features, not anything that ADS gives you). Of course, the initial replication could take a while depending on your WAN links and the amount of data that needs to be replicated but it will sync up for you eventually. As far as Exchange is concerned I'm not sure about that.
Someone more qualified to speak to this can chime in. I'd be interested to know how close I am to a viable solution (I may have to do something like this at work in the next couple years).
Brandon
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