3 New Servers - how many DC's?
- From: "Victoria Bolton" <morkai at dreamwolf dot net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:47:18 -0500
We are setting up a brand new domain with 3 brand new servers. All three are
running Windows 2003 Server. 1 is currently the Domain Controller, 1 is our
exchange 2003 box and the third is a file and database server.
I'm wondering if I should make one or both of the other two servers into
domain controllers so that if my PDC goes down they can step in and handle
it.
I also want to setup roaming profiles, we read that roaming profiles should
not be put on the PDC due to the potential load that will cause. At this
time we only have 75 users and do not envisage much 'roaming'. Its is mainly
for the computer staffs benefit so that when we switch a computer out we do
not have to re-setup up the entire desktop.
That said if users know they can do that I wouldn't be surprised to see
several of them taking advantage of it. I also want to be careful about
future setups. We are taking this opportunity to completely redo our network
from our current NT4 setup which is frankly a nasty mess. I don't want to
fall into the same traps.
I'm guessing the profiles require AD installed and am trying to decide
wether that should be on the Exchange box or the file server. The fileserver
is a dual 3ghz xeon processors with 2 gigs of ram. The DC and Exchabge box
are single processor boxes with 1 gig or ram.
any thoughts would be appreciated
regards
Victoria
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