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best practice guide for satellite office domain controller
I am looking for a best practice guide for a w2k8 domain controller to be put in a satellite office of ours that is linked to our DC at the main office, again another w2k8 DC
are there going to be administrators there ?
you could consider installing a windows 2008 RODC (Read only domain controller) on a windows core installtion using the install from media option to get pass the initial AD replication.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/dd378775
you could consider installing a windows 2008 RODC (Read only domain controller) on a windows core installtion using the install from media option to get pass the initial AD replication.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/dd378775
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nope there will be no onsite administrators
Also that technet article from xmlmagician does not really help
I will be more specific in what I am looking for.
I have built PDC and BDC on the main site, I need to know for a satellite office for the dc over there, which will not be a child domain, just an additional dc, if I need to build it simply with a secondary DC setup like I would for the main office?
http://www.elmajdal.net/win2k8/setting_up_an_additional_domain_controller_with_windows_server_2008.aspx
Also what is the best way to setup dns for the users? meaning should their primary dns be the main office dns or should the satellite office dns be the primary dns on both the computers and the server?
Also that technet article from xmlmagician does not really help
I will be more specific in what I am looking for.
I have built PDC and BDC on the main site, I need to know for a satellite office for the dc over there, which will not be a child domain, just an additional dc, if I need to build it simply with a secondary DC setup like I would for the main office?
http://www.elmajdal.net/win2k8/setting_up_an_additional_domain_controller_with_windows_server_2008.aspx
Also what is the best way to setup dns for the users? meaning should their primary dns be the main office dns or should the satellite office dns be the primary dns on both the computers and the server?
You can go through branch office guide which is for 2003, but it might help you for windows 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=9353A4F6-A8A8-40BB-9FA7-3A95C9540112&displaylang=en
IPD guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&displaylang=en
MS got design guide too.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=88F0184C-8F03-4F0F-B3F9-5109255FB461
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=9353A4F6-A8A8-40BB-9FA7-3A95C9540112&displaylang=en
IPD guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&displaylang=en
MS got design guide too.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=88F0184C-8F03-4F0F-B3F9-5109255FB461
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Gotchya thanks alot M-Manakhly so I should do the RODC, but that part will be out of my hands for certain reasons, but the DNS server role should be installed on the satellite office DC and have that primary DNS for all equipment
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727085.aspx
happy reading :)