I'm sorry, I just have to completely disagree. You want two DCs, or don't do a domain at all. It WILL fail, and you don't want to be without a live DC.
Also, that yearly backup won't do any good. Computers have an account in AD just like any other object, and they will change their machine account passwords randomly every few days. So, unless you have a group policy set up to prevent machines doing so, your image would be good for perhaps a week. If you needed to bring the image online due to a DC failure, none of your computer accounts in the old AD copy would be valid anymore--so you'd be doing a disjoin/rejoin for each one. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:49 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] WINS Server? > > No, I've gotten by for 7+ years on a single DC. Of > course my domain does not > change much and I only have 5 PC's on it. > > I do every year or so boot up a second machine with 2K > server, promote it to DC > from member server & get my domain synced to it. Then > I image that second server > "just in case". Also use this method when I need to > redo the 1st server from > scratch. >
