RE: IIS6 on W2k3 DCs

From: Laura A. Robinson (larobins_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: 01/21/05

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:00:02 -0500

    > You can have a backup domain controller now....okay here goes
    > the myths of SBS again... we HAVE to be the PRIMARY domain
    > controller [hold all the FSMO roles] but we can have BACKUP
    > domain controllers all we want.

    If we're going to address myths, there IS NO SUCH THING AS A BACKUP DOMAIN
    CONTROLLER in Windows 2000 or later. Period. Backup domain controllers hold
    read-only copies of a SAM. Since Win2K/2K3 domain controllers hold
    *read/write replicas of the Active Directory database*, then by definition,
    they cannot be backup domain controllers. I cringe whenever I hear somebody
    use that terminology in reference to Win2K+, because to me it implies a
    serious lack of understanding of the underlying structures of a domain.

    Laura

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