If the applications are important enough to be tested, get them into your
test environment. There are times other than domain upgrades, etc that they
will need to be tested as well.
Running test against production data is insane and asking for problems.
If I were a manager of someone who did
Hi Joe and Al,
Thank you both for the reactions. I know how I think about it and what I told
the client that proposed this. I think your reactions say enough about the wild
idea. The client that proposed this was told by me and a collegue that although
it seems OK, the risks are too high and
Been there. Someone has a hairbrained idea and wants you to sign up to back
it... There have been times I have signed up but anytime I have any unease
about it I won't even think about signing up especially if I was consulted
as an expert. If the person asks you and then fights you on the answer,
Jorge, I saw your definition of a SBC server, but what is that really? Can
you expand that?
Otherwise,
As you may see theoretically everything seems OK and it also seems no
issues should occur with this. I'm wondering:
* If such scenario will work?
* Has anyone done this before?
That's what I said beforetheoretically everything seems OK, but my first
feeling for this is: don't do it... but again it is a wild crazy idea...
The main issue here is: you need to test the core apps in the prod. env. with
w2k3 ad... as it is not possible to place a model of the core apps
