If a proper DR (Disaster Recovery) plan is in place, an engineer will not needs to consider about this option at all. But it’s not a perfect IT world we living on, some business can’t afford to invest on DR. anyway, as we know AD runs with FSMO roles. Depend on the design these roles may be located on different servers and sometime all runs from one DC (which is not recommended). If…
In an infrastructure when you place domain controllers and related services it is important to identify exactly where it should logically locate. It will directly make impact on performances and security.
There are mainly four types of servers and roles when consider about AD topology design.
1) Forest root domain controller
2) Regional domain…
SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the domain controllers in network will replicate the content of SYSVOL folder. The default path for SYSVOL folder is %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL. This folder path can define when you install the active directory.
Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 uses File Replication Service (FRS) to…
Even its been over decade after windows server 2003 release , It’s no wonder that still organizations using windows server 2003 / windows server 2003 R2 as their domain controllers. Microsoft has announced that windows server 2003 / windows server 2003 R2 supports ends on 2015, July 14th…
