Re: Secondary DC in SBS 2003 Domain



See Knowledge base Article ID: 905700 for Hotfix info.
"Kelvin" <Kelvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm hoping to get clarification on this.

In addition to taking over logon authentication when the PDC is down, does
a
secondary DC in a SBS2003 domain do anything else, eg. load balance logon
authentications under normal operations, etc. ?

The reason behind this question is because we have a site whose SBS2003
server is fairly heavily used. A 2003 TS in that network intermittently
encounters logon problems (RPC server is unavailable) and it has been
suggested here in Technet as well as a few posts found on Google that one
possible reason is because the PDC (SBS Server) is too busy. Therefore, if
this was the case, since this site has a third 2003 Server, will promoting
it
as a secondary DC help resolve this issue (if it is caused by an
overworked
SBS server) ?

Kelvin


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