Re: Secondary DC in SBS 2003 Domain
- From: "kj" <kj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:40:42 -0700
Sounds like a amply capable SBS server. How many users?
Do you have monitoring configured and are you getting any process monitor
events or healthmonitor alerts?
Perhaps go into Monitoring and Reporting, Performance Report, and post the
current Performance Summary including the CPU utilization for the last
month.
Have you checked on the hotfix recommended in another reply?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905700/en-us
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/kj
"Kelvin" <Kelvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F98CA889-B0D0-43CA-BD99-DD8FAB5484F3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Kj,
The Server is based on :-
Dual Xeon 3.4Ghz
4GB RAM
RAID 1 OS Drive
RAID 5 Data Drive
Both with ample free space
(The problem was occurring even after defragmenting both drives - so
performance loss due to heavily fragmented drives was not the case)
Runs SBS 2003 Premium SP1, Exchange SP2 (with up to date Windows Updates)
Runs Trend Micro's CSM for SMB and InterScan Viruswall for SMB
Hosts 2 major SQL databases (line of business)
Note : The RPC error only occurs on the 2003 TS. It does not appear on an
older existing 2000 TS.
Regards,
Kelvin
"kj" wrote:
Subsequent DC's are equal peers in the user logon process and as such the
servers should be hardware comparables. "Balanced" isn't really a
definitive
term for it.
So what else can it do without breaking SBS wizards? DNS, Roaming
profiles,
Print Server, File Server, DFS, and probably a few other.
Still, a well sized and resourced SBS server should be able to handle
normal
user logons for 75 users and the rest of the stuff in the SBS (out of
the )box.
Maybe you could post the SBS server hardware configuration and a little
about your user environment for some opinions on the load you've imposed
on
the server.
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/kj
"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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