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Active Directory in Windows Server 2008

Resources: 2 x Windows Server 2008 64 bit - Enterprise Edition
DC01 and DC02
Objective: Active Directory Failover or BDC

Hello Experts,

What is the best possible solution for:

Failover Active Directory DC
If one of the DC fails, I would like to have the second DC service the authentication requests.
What are the native options, without using any third party replication software.

Thanks in advance.

RC

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what if one dies will the other DC automatically cater for authentication etc ??

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Also, should the GC be on both of them ????

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could you plz shed some light on :
how to make both the DCs GC in Windows 2008 environment

Cheers

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