Re: BDC Offsite?

In addition to the other responses please note the MSKB you refer to applies
only to SBS 4.5 and earlier.

"CDP" <pitmancd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OiGyh.4670$6P4.4422@xxxxxxxxxxx
For a small business, we just set up an SBS 2003 with Exchange installed
and a striped/mirrored Raid. We have some general questions about fault
tolerance and disaster recovery.

Should we ideally have another SBS server setup as a BDC? If the PDC
failed, was in a fire, etc., then we should be able to use the BDC.
Correct??

Can Exchange and its mailboxes be set up to be duplicated on the BDC?

Should it ideally be at a remote location - off-site? In case of fire,
hurricane, etc...

If located remotely, what connection needs to be setup between the PDC and
BDC? Would this be done through VPN?? Both servers would be connected to
the interent via DSL and each have a static IP.

I was just looking at the article below. Instead of having a BDC, maybe
we should just be doing a backup of the SBS to a remote machine??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200866

It reads:
"You can install a computer as a BDC in an SBS domain, but there is
minimal advantage in doing so. Because the SBS server must function as a
PDC, the BDC only provides redundancy for authentication, not fault
tolerance as in a traditional Windows NT domain where a PDC does not act
as an applications server."



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