RE: [ActiveDir] AD Restore Problem

2005-10-06 Thread Mark.Whitby
Also, the documentation for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/BookofSP1/658a175c-486a-42ee-b3da-9b56de3d187c.mspx states:   Support for running domain controllers in virtual machines On a single physical server that is r

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Password Policies

2005-10-07 Thread Mark.Whitby
I wondered that too and checked with Robert who sent my query on to a chap named Jan Liikamaa.  He said: Unfortunately our product does not handle different account lockout policies.  But I agree that it would be very nice to be able to specify different set of account lockout rules

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Roles

2005-10-07 Thread Mark.Whitby
I've looked at using Virtual Server for small sites and it makes sense to me. The only drawback is that all your eggs are in one basket - lose the host and you lose everything. The same's true for patching as you'll need downtime on all of the guest machines when the host is updated. One nice

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Roles

2005-10-07 Thread Mark.Whitby
We had a pretty inefficient model for small site deployment, so we recently revamped it to the one mentioned below. So far, the DC-less sites have been quite small, no more than 10 users. However, I'd be comfortable letting that go up as far as 100 or so users - but we do have very good WAN conn

RE: [ActiveDir] OWA after resetting password

2005-11-02 Thread Mark.Whitby
I'm not an expert on OWA, but as you mentioned in the first part of your message the DC performs the check against the PDC to see if the password has been changed. So long as OWA is using a DC to authenticate a user, which I'm assuming it does, then the DC will handle the PDC check invisibly. Th