We have been testing the .NET Server in our environment. There are many enhancements that have made our life easier.
Our company is a large Bank in South Africa and we operate in many African countries and with this we have the issue of bad telecommunications to our foreign branches. We are using the feature called "Replicate from Media". All you need to do now is perform a System State Backup and then restore to the new server. Run DCPromo with an ADV switch and point to the Restore location. Hey presto you will have your entire directory replicated to the local DC and with the replication schedule set up it will receive the updates which will be minimal. Other features include: DNS Stub Zones Conditional Forwarding Application Partition: Replication to set to replicate to all domains or certain domains. (Very cool feature) GC-Less Logon: Logon requests can be accepted without the need of a GC in the site. (Must have logged on previously but will continue with a cache profile) DC Rename: Very cool but you need .NET Native mode. Domain Rename: also need .NET Native (Be very sure that you want to perform this as you need to reboot your servers twice with other configuration changes) Forest Trust: Transitive trusts will be the name of the game for this which is pretty cool considering previously you had to set up external trust from the one domain to the required one. One last thing IIS 6.0 is much better stable, secure than the previous versions. Hope this info helps you. These are from the top of my head. Need anything else let me know. Yusuf -----Original Message----- From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 January, 2003 21:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory - Windows Server 2003 yes -----Original Message----- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:58 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory - Windows Server 2003 Is windows 2003 Windows .NET?????? -----Original Message----- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory - Windows Server 2003 I've been running it in a lab environment for several months. The AD in WS2K3 is fundamentally as it was in W2K, with some notable improvements in the KCC (reduced computation needed for topology calculation), replication (value replication instead of attribute replication for certain attributes), and multi-forest support (cross forest trust). A nice security improvement is that anonymous users by default have no access and therefore can't mount DOS attacks on AD. Supposedly the overall performance of AD has been improved, but I haven't assessed that. There are improvements in some of the AD-related admin tools as well. Summary: notable but not revolutionary improvements. The upgrade path is fairly low friction, so I'd feel pretty comfortable starting deployment of WS2K3 when it ships. -gil -----Original Message----- From: Clifford Airhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory - Windows Server 2003 Hello Everyone! With the new version of Windows Server 2003 there's a new version of Active Directory. It seems to have some more features than the Windows2000 Active Directory. Windows Server 2003 is due to be released in April. Has anyone tested, implemented, or researched this version and found it much better than Windows2000 version? Thanks in advance your advice and input! Cliff Airhart Answer Financial Inc. Senior Systems Administrator - Server Support / eBusiness [EMAIL PROTECTED] 818.644.4225 We answer to you. 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