I think it would have to be treated like a production environment. If a roleback to a previous state was needed, it's time to test the restore process from backups.
You are correct there could be several different things going on at once that could affect what other people are doing. This would require some troubleshooting. Thanks for your input, I am trying to figure out if it's a feasible idea. -----Original Message----- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:06 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected Even if you trust everyone, coordination remains a problem. Chat and such are fine, but if I'm running some tests over the course of a couple of evenings or a weekend, how can I reasonably expect 20 other people to leave the whole thing alone for that length of time? And how do I put everything back the way it was? (I guess remotely deployable VMWare is the obvious answer to this last issue.) -g -----Original Message----- From: Cary, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected What happens in the real world when this happens? With message boards, chat rooms, and instant messengers configuration changes could be documented and discussed. Your question goes back to trust, Is someone going to make changes on there own with no concern for the other participants? -----Original Message----- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected Interesting idea.... I would think that trust isn't so much of an issue as configuration management. If you have 20 people link their 100 servers into a couple of AD forests (for instance), how do you make sure no one reconfigures the replication topology right when you're in the middle of testing out some site-specific GPO? -g -----Original Message----- From: Cary, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected I wanted to pose this idea to the group and get some feedback. Resources at work are limited for a test lab and I only have 3 computers at home for a lab, and I would think at least some of you are in similar situations. The home lab is ok for some stuff but I find it's hard to put a real world slant on such a small network. Would it be plausible to get several IT people, that haven't really met just interacted online (such as this list), to connect there home labs over the Internet creating a larger lab environment. 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