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From: Douglas Ofner on 29 Jul 2010 22:42 Thank you for your responses.. Our 7 users are all in-house support staff. We have 150 users that work from their homes. We dont provide them with e-mail as they are subs. We currently have 5 quality servers running in our shop. This will be the sixth. My goal was to add exchange (SBS) so we could use web based outlook in addition to a few other simple tasks i need done on the network. The server is a dell Dual Xeon with hot swap raid5 data and raid 1 OS drives. redundant power supplies.....the works.. The point is, i am worried about demoting our 2 servers and promoting this one SBS to be the "Boss". I am concerned that if the primary goes down we are SOL. If i proceed and setup the SBS, Is there a way to make my current servers backup AD's? (BDC's) I was following the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453 And got to step 7 and stopped. Thank for all your help, really appreciated. Doug
From: Susan Bradley on 30 Jul 2010 00:15 In the 2k3/2k8 era they are just called additional domain controllers not backup domain controllers. Either you need to make the SBS the boss.....or... use pass through authentication and have these 7 people log into one domain, and in the other use pass through authentication. I've seen folks do this. My advice is to talk to Jeff Middleton of sbsmigration.com Douglas Ofner wrote: > Thank you for your responses.. > > Our 7 users are all in-house support staff. We have 150 users that work > from their homes. We dont provide them with e-mail as they are subs. We > currently have 5 quality servers running in our shop. This will be the > sixth. My goal was to add exchange (SBS) so we could use web based outlook > in addition to a few other simple tasks i need done on the network. > > The server is a dell Dual Xeon with hot swap raid5 data and raid 1 OS > drives. redundant power supplies.....the works.. > > The point is, i am worried about demoting our 2 servers and promoting this > one SBS to be the "Boss". I am concerned that if the primary goes down we > are SOL. If i proceed and setup the SBS, Is there a way to make my current > servers backup AD's? (BDC's) > > I was following the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453 > > And got to step 7 and stopped. > > Thank for all your help, really appreciated. > > Doug >
From: Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP] on 30 Jul 2010 10:59 Are these 150 "home workers" accessing resources on the network, via VPN or Remote Desktop? -- Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP] (since 1997) Co-Contributor, Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Small-Business-Server-Unleashed/dp/0672329573/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217269967&sr=8-1 Owner, CPU Services, Belleville, IL A Microsoft Registered Partner ------------------------------------ MVPs do not work for Microsoft Please do not submit questions directly to me. "Douglas Ofner" <DouglasOfner(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1C19AB79-CB0A-4AD9-AD61-D9EE8D227870(a)microsoft.com... Thank you for your responses.. Our 7 users are all in-house support staff. We have 150 users that work from their homes. We dont provide them with e-mail as they are subs. We currently have 5 quality servers running in our shop. This will be the sixth. My goal was to add exchange (SBS) so we could use web based outlook in addition to a few other simple tasks i need done on the network. The server is a dell Dual Xeon with hot swap raid5 data and raid 1 OS drives. redundant power supplies.....the works.. The point is, i am worried about demoting our 2 servers and promoting this one SBS to be the "Boss". I am concerned that if the primary goes down we are SOL. If i proceed and setup the SBS, Is there a way to make my current servers backup AD's? (BDC's) I was following the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453 And got to step 7 and stopped. Thank for all your help, really appreciated. Doug
From: Douglas Ofner on 30 Jul 2010 12:57 Hey, Again, thanks for the replies. No, these 150 are using a custom app so no worries for them with rdp or any other remote access. I have never heard of pass through authentication. Is there any recommended reading for this? Thanks again, Doug
From: Douglas Ofner on 30 Jul 2010 13:00
Addendum: When you say additional domain controllers, that would suggest that even if the "Boss" is down the user accounts would still be on the "additional domain controllers", is that correct? Doug |