Re: Secondary AD

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Good grief man what are you running ?
How many other Admins are there and how often are you adding Users and Groups ...concurrently ?
How many users on this system and why is there such a load ?
I've seen SBS 2000 Boxes Exchange ISA SQL et all with 1GB Ram run 10+users with the SQL LOB App hit reasonably hard. and it still just sits there at 20-25% usage.

Adding a Replica DC won't alleviate Squat on the SBServer in terms of load balancing.
It will just service log-ons if the SBServer is unavailable. LOB Apps etc are still on the SBServer

What are the Spec's on the SBServer and what Users/applications/loads are there on it ?
Maybe we can suggest something.

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Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}


"Matt Setters" <mattsetters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:etUCi2IvHHA.3772@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a SBS premium that has only 1GB or RAM and cant take anymore at present until we upgrade the motherboard, it doesnt have exchange installed or ISA or SQL because of performance issues, i installed a server standard 2003 and added it as a second DC in the main Domain so all of AD is populated on both servers, what exactly does this do with regars to off loading from the PDC does it allow the PDC to pass AD task to the 2nd DC or was this a pointless option.

the only thing i can see that is good right now is that other admins dont have to access the PDC to add users and groups which means that the PDC is somewhat protected from extensive use

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