How to install AD?? 1

[rihu]

hi guys !!! got to servers one is just for test & some filesharing,,and the other is the primary, for production,,I just wonder if i have to install both like AD or, just install the primary and the first like a member server,,it seems like a god idea for me??

 

[RLE]

You can install only one server as Domain Controllers in your AD. Thats OK, but if you install a sencond one, your AD work if the fisrt one go down.

 

[GlenJohnson]

I must be missing something. I have two Domain Controllers, and there is active directory on both. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
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[brontosaurus]

You ain't missing a thing.

 

[SupaTech1]

Two DC's same network, same Domain = AD replication = same AD on both machines, you can setup trust relationships to provide replication to and from other domains in your tree

 

[MattOP]

You have AD on 2 DC's because you ran DCPROMO twice

Microsoft recommends minimum of 2 Domain Controllers per domain. You can survie fine with one, and if you are a small company (will no real reliance on AD) you don't really need the 2nd DC, but you will have to rely on your backups.