RE: Domain Controller Best Practice - Thanks!

From: Sullivan Tim P (tim.sullivan_at_nativemode.com)
Date: 02/24/05

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    Thanks to everyone for replies on the DC configuration. I got a number
    of good links.
     
    I would summarize the dialog and what I found through reading as this:
     
    It would be *best practice* to limit the roles a DC has, however you are
    not creating a real security risk by allowing your DC to also function
    as a file server.
     
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    Tim Sullivan
    Nativemode Technologies
    623.910.4700
    tim@nativemode.com

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    From: Sullivan Tim P [mailto:tim.sullivan@nativemode.com]
    Sent: Mon 2/21/2005 6:21 PM
    To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Domain Controller Best Practice

    I am in need of some supporting documentation relating to Domain
    Controllers.

    The situation is this. A medium sized school would like their single DC
    to also be a file server. This DC would be serving about 300 people,
    along with another file server and an email server.

    My initial recommendation is multiple domain controllers for the simple
    reason of fault tolerance of the schema. They buy this.

    However, they would like to see technical documentation saying that it
    is not a good idea to have a domain controller share roles as a DC and a
    file server.

    One of my main concerns, aside from load, is that high school age kids
    are using the network. They like to poke and prod. I would rather them
    not even poke at the DC. Also, as the DC has no local security database,
    you can no longer use permission assignment best practice. To me it just
    seems like a bad idea, but I need documentation to back it up.

    Can anyone offer resources to illustrate this? I am scouring technet and
    the MS AD deployment docs now.

    Thanks,
    Tim

    ______________________
    Tim Sullivan
    Nativemode Technologies
    (623) 910-4700
    tim@nativemode.com

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