Re: Remote Domain Controllers and replication
- From: Meinolf Weber
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:03:02 +0000 (UTC)
Hello physikal,
As Ace give's you a good way for dealing with the connectivity, i will make some thoughts to the server part. You have not that amount of user's in the moment, but your setup with separate DC's for each site is a good plan.
You should make all DC's in your environment Global catalog servers, no problem in a single forest domain like yours.
Also choose AD integrated zones in DNS so replication is done with AD and all DNS servers are full writable.
For DHCP i would NOT use the DSL router, use the server in the site, you have more options to assign different settings to the clients.
Also you can integrate updating of DNS according to this, to prevent multiple records in the zones for one computer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787034.aspx
In the WHQ site i would personally not built the environment with an old machine and a VM together. Even that VM's as DC are supported, the 5 FSMO roles should be placed on a physical machine. All recommendations you will find state that at least one physical DC should exist and i think a "crappy box" maybe is not the best solution for this.
See here about DC's and VM:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794
Even if you don't use VS2005, the recommendation's still apply:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=64DB845D-F7A3-4209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897614/en-us
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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Hello all,
I'm having a real issue deciding on what route to take for 2 remote
sites that we have. I'll layout our setup and give my thoughts and
theories on it, then if you could, give me your input and hopefully
share your better ideas!
We have 3 sites:
WHQ
Site 1
Site 2
# of users:
WHQ = 10-15
Site 1 = 10-15
Site 2 = 10-15
The goal is to keep it as cheap as possible, taking the Open Source
route wherever possible.
WHQ Setup:
1 DC being emulated with VirtualBox running DHCP/DNS. Hamachi
Installed.
1 Backup DC on a crappy old box running DNS and acts as a GCS. Hamachi
Installed.
Endian firewall on a T1.
Site 1 Setup:
1 DC and File Server running DNS. DHCP is handled by a cable/dsl
router. Hamachi installed for replication from WHQ to Site 1.
Site 2 Setup:
1 DC and File Server running DNS. DHCP is handled by a cable/dsl
router. Hamachi installed for replication from WHQ to Site 1.
In my tests using Hamachi for replication has been hit and miss. I
could just be doing something wrong, but I just don't trust its
reliability enough. I keep thinking there has to be a more reliable,
and
probably more secure solution.
Any input you could provide would be great!
-Phys
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