I remember back in the days of our old 3500-user NT 4.0 domain, back when I ran an administration group. We had a nice ProLiant server that was a 486. We only had one of those. But because it was manageable through Insight Agents, we decided to keep it and made it our PDC, since it wasn't terribly useful for anything else. We figured that if it were to die, we'd just junk it and promote another server. It never did die while I was there, and it performed fine.
So, although the hardware sales guys at my current employer would crucify me for saying this, I can't disagree with your approach. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:50 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Improving your AD's fault tolerance with old hardware? Correct me if I am wrong, but assuming the more DC's you have in your forest, the more fault tolerant your Active Directory will become, is it therefore worth it to use retired, possibly out of (hardware) warranty servers or workstations for this purpose if you are budget-less (to purchase new servers)? In this case, I am referring to orgs with 20-200 AD users. How about GC's and other related AD roles and critical software based services? Same deal? Thank you, ...D List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
