Re: Active Directory and IIS-6

From: Thomas McFarlane (TM_at_HotMeal.Com)
Date: 09/28/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:18:09 -0400

Thanks Leon for quick response. My application server (IIS-6) is for
Internet only. Not intranet. You are right, for internal usage, it does make
sense to make IIS member of AD. But my AD ADmin. insists to make all
application servers (IIS & SQL) as members of AD.

Thomas

"Leon Mayne [MVP]" <l.rmv.mayne@uea.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:OQG7qECxFHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Thomas McFarlane wrote:
>> Is it best practice to join an IIS-6 (run on Windows 2003 server) to a
>> Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain ? Do you have any
>> references/articles about this subject ?
>
> Not sure of any articles, but in general I would say yes, because:
> 1) You can manage the policies and patches for the server centrally
> 2) You get the domain security model implemented (e.g. users can use their
> domain accounts to log on to your web applications)
> 3) You can use Kerberos authentication for web apps, if required
>
> It depends on the situation. I guess there are circumstances when you
> would want the server to be completely standalone, but if it's going to be
> a webserver for your internal organisation apps then I don't see why you
> wouldn't want to put it in the domain.
>

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