Re: Secondary AD

Well, for creating and managing users, that's certainly true. And any gains might well be offset by the replication cost. But authentication requests will go to whichever AD answers first, and should stick with the answering DC for the length of the session, as I understand it.

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"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xn0f884h35qgqg003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Matt Setters wrote:

I have a SBS Premium without ISA or SQL just the basiscs not even SP2, i have joined a Server Standard 2003 to the domain and added it as a second domain controller what does this exactly do, does SBS off load to the standard if it gets bogged down????

It gives your AD resilience/tolerance for single server failure. There's no "offload" of any sort.

How valuable that is in a small business environment is open to question.

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