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That's what I thought, thanks. &nbsp;Already planned on making it a global catalog, and already have the site planned out(we have other sites already).<br />
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Thanks for the advice!!
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That's what I thought, thanks.  Already planned on making it a global catalog, and already have the site planned out(we have other sites already).

Thanks for the advice!!

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As always, Good Luck and Enjoy
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We're planning on adding a new 2003 DC and member server to one of our branch offices. &nbsp;I have Active Directory Integrated DNS setup on the DC, and was wanting to setup a backup DNS server on the member server for redundancy. &nbsp;I do not want to make the member server a DC. &nbsp;I've never had to set this up yet and was wondering if someone can give me some good advice. &nbsp;For 40 users do you think it's worth setting up redundant DNS? &nbsp;I realize I could point the clients to a DNS server over our VPN(as a secondary). &nbsp;Would that be recommended?<br />
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Any advice would really be appreciated.<br />
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Thanks!
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We're planning on adding a new 2003 DC and member server to one of our branch offices.  I have Active Directory Integrated DNS setup on the DC, and was wanting to setup a backup DNS server on the member server for redundancy.  I do not want to make the member server a DC.  I've never had to set this up yet and was wondering if someone can give me some good advice.  For 40 users do you think it's worth setting up redundant DNS?  I realize I could point the clients to a DNS server over our VPN(as a secondary).  Would that be recommended?

Any advice would really be appreciated.

Thanks!

Backup DNS Server for Branch Office?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).