Re: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-14 Thread Christopher Bodnar 
I don't think anything like that exists. Even with an appliance like 
storage server, it was still a windows box and you needed to manage it 
like one (patching, agents, domain membership, etc...). So even if 
something like this did exist , I"m not sure how much it would reduce your 
management overhead of the device.

I agree with some of the other comments. if  you have a small 
virtualization environment at one of these locations, it would be your 
easiest solution. You could pre-configure a some Hyper-V servers at  your 
corporate location and then ship them out to the remote offices. Then you 
could just spin up VM's remotely. 

YMMV




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From:   Jonathan 
To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Date:   06-13-12 04:29 PM
Subject:Active Directory Appliance?



My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 
2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my 
core. The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that 
server, the OS, etc, for our remote offices.
Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any 
experience with them?
TIA,
Jonathan
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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Chenault 
Meh.. standard engineering mantra. Those three always come into play eventually.


From: Steven M. Caesare [scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:42 PM
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Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?

I didn’t see him demanding any of those.

-sc

On Jun 13, 2012 5:38 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Cheap/easy/fast

Pick two

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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Not interested in anything home-brewed.
On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
DNS and DHCP: free with OS

Image it, lock it down tight and let ‘er rip.

Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com<mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>
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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Chenault 
I understand that and it's your ballpark so you move the infield fence where 
ever you like. :)

It is a good workable solution though; rock-solid and once setup and locked 
down is practically hands-free.

Those of you who have known me a long time: did you ever think you'd see me 
touting Linux? :)


From: Jonathan [ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Ha! True. This is why I did not place constraints on any of those 3 factors 
with the exception stating that I did not want something home brewed. I figured 
that would have implied that I didn't care about trying to  do something on the 
cheap.

On Jun 13, 2012 5:38 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Cheap/easy/fast

Pick two

Daniel Chenault
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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Not interested in anything home-brewed.
On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
DNS and DHCP: free with OS

Image it, lock it down tight and let ‘er rip.

Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com<mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>
[Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CCF24C.F9B05160]

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Steven M. Caesare 
I didn't see him demanding any of those.

 

-sc

 

On Jun 13, 2012 5:38 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
wrote:

Cheap/easy/fast

 

Pick two

 

Daniel Chenault

dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com

 

 

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?

 

Not interested in anything home-brewed.

On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
wrote:

Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100

Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free

DNS and DHCP: free with OS

 

Image it, lock it down tight and let 'er rip. 

 

Daniel Chenault

dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com



 

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?

 

My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and
DHCP hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory
2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my
core. The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that
server, the OS, etc, for our remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any
experience with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan 
Nope, hardly that many users. We're talking less than 100 users for most of
our remote sites.

Deploying RWDCs to each site is a practice here that long pre-dates me, and
even our department (for a number of years, each site was fairly
autonomous, with no formal internal infrastructure team). Changing over to
RODCs is something worth considering, though, along with 2008R2 Core. I may
bring it up at the next staff meeting.

Thanks,

Jonathan
On Jun 13, 2012 5:59 PM, "Free, Bob"  wrote:

>  Not knowing your specific requirements, especially WRT to user
> population, for file/print, at first blush I’d think cached credentials
> with more of a focus on resilient connectivity would be the best solution.
> 
>
> ** **
>
> I’m a firm believer that RWDCs only go in DataCenters with the attendant
> physical security. If you deploy to the branch, that is the realm of the
> RODC but it carries its own inherent complexities.
>
> ** **
>
> Maybe your idea of a remote office is many hundreds or thousands of users
> and I’m all wet. 
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:01 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* [dkim-failure] RE: Active Directory Appliance?
>
> ** **
>
> Authentication survivability at the remote site for access to local
> resources (primarily file and print).
>
> On Jun 13, 2012 4:52 PM, "Free, Bob"  wrote:
>
> I have never come across such a beast.
>
>  
>
> Question in my mind would be more like “why are you deploying DCs
> remotely” 
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* [dkim-failure] Active Directory Appliance?
>
>  
>
> My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP
> hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory
> 2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core.
> The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server,
> the OS, etc, for our remote offices.
>
> Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any
> experience with them?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan
>
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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Michael B. Smith 
SAMBA 4 can do this on Linux/NetBSD. Dunno how you are with UNIX-variants.

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Authentication survivability at the remote site for access to local resources 
(primarily file and print).
On Jun 13, 2012 4:52 PM, "Free, Bob" mailto:r...@pge.com>> wrote:
I have never come across such a beast.

Question in my mind would be more like "why are you deploying DCs remotely"


From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [dkim-failure] Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan 
Ha! True. This is why I did not place constraints on any of those 3 factors
with the exception stating that I did not want something home brewed. I
figured that would have implied that I didn't care about trying to  do
something on the cheap.
On Jun 13, 2012 5:38 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
wrote:

>  Cheap/easy/fast
>
> ** **
>
> Pick two
>
> ** **
>
> Daniel Chenault
>
> dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com
>
> [image: Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CCF24C.F9B05160]
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:01 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Active Directory Appliance?
>
> ** **
>
> Not interested in anything home-brewed.
>
> On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
> wrote:
>
> Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
>
> Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
>
> DNS and DHCP: free with OS
>
>  
>
> Image it, lock it down tight and let ‘er rip. 
>
>  
>
> Daniel Chenault
>
> dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com
>
> [image: Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CCF24C.F9B05160]
>
>  
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Active Directory Appliance?
>
>  
>
> My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP
> hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory
> 2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core.
> The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server,
> the OS, etc, for our remote offices.
>
> Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any
> experience with them?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan
>
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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Chenault 
Cheap/easy/fast

Pick two

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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Not interested in anything home-brewed.
On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
DNS and DHCP: free with OS

Image it, lock it down tight and let 'er rip.

Daniel Chenault
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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Damien Solodow 
Your best bet then is to use a Server Core install of either 2008 or 2008 R2. 
It's supported, requires minimal patching/management and is ideally suited to 
remote management.

DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active Directory Appliance?


Not interested in anything home-brewed.
On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>> wrote:
Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
DNS and DHCP: free with OS

Image it, lock it down tight and let 'er rip.

Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com<mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com>
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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com<mailto:ncm...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan 
Not interested in anything home-brewed.
On Jun 13, 2012 4:41 PM, "Daniel Chenault" 
wrote:

>  Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
>
> Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
>
> DNS and DHCP: free with OS
>
> ** **
>
> Image it, lock it down tight and let ‘er rip. 
>
> ** **
>
> Daniel Chenault
>
> dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com
>
> [image: Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CCF24C.F9B05160]
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Active Directory Appliance?
>
> ** **
>
> My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP
> hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory
> 2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core.
> The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server,
> the OS, etc, for our remote offices.
>
> Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any
> experience with them?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan 
Authentication survivability at the remote site for access to local
resources (primarily file and print).
On Jun 13, 2012 4:52 PM, "Free, Bob"  wrote:

>  I have never come across such a beast.
>
> ** **
>
> Question in my mind would be more like “why are you deploying DCs
> remotely” 
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* [dkim-failure] Active Directory Appliance?
>
> ** **
>
> My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP
> hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory
> 2003/2008. I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core.
> The idea would be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server,
> the OS, etc, for our remote offices.
>
> Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any
> experience with them?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan
>
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>
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RE: Active Directory Appliance?

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Chenault 
Used P4 with 2G RAM, 500M hard drive: ~100
Your favorite flavor of Linux distro: free
DNS and DHCP: free with OS

Image it, lock it down tight and let 'er rip.

Daniel Chenault
dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com
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From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Active Directory Appliance?


My Google-fu seems to be failing me. I know that infoblox has DNS and DHCP 
hardware appliances, but I don't see anything for Active Directory 2003/2008. 
I'm only interested in this for remote offices, not for my core. The idea would 
be to eliminate buying a server, maintaining that server, the OS, etc, for our 
remote offices.

Does such exist, and if so, does the collective brain trust have any experience 
with them?

TIA,

Jonathan

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