RE: [ActiveDir] DC placement in AD

[Tony Murray]

Title: DC placement in AD

Hi Ken

 

Personally, I wouldn't have a domain with just one DC.  This applies especially to the root domain which houses the Enterprise Administrators and Schema Administrators groups.  Even with backups a single DC represents an unaccepable risk.  Also, in terms of business continuity a single DC per domain is a single point of failure.

 

If you can't afford the luxury of 4 DCs (which for 20 users looks like overkill) I would stay with just one domain.   If the company changes name in the future it will not kill you to migrate 20 users.

 

Good idea to make them both GCs.

 

Tony

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Rinehart
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] DC placement in AD

I have a small office network I've been designing and just need a few "tips" before I go through the actual setup.  The company has agreed to buy 2 nice servers to act as DCs for a small office network of 20 people.  There is talk of a company name change at somepoint so my thoughts were to do an "empty root" then create my main domain tree that all users will login to. Done.  Eventually when the time comes I'd just create a new domain tree with the new company name and move the accounts over. This seem logical?

I guess my question is will 2 DCs be OK for now?  I'd just make them both GC servers also.  I'm trying to get a better understanding of where to put DCs in the scheme of things.  One DC per domain tree or what?

Thanks in advance

Ken-