The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

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re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:52:00 GMT

get sp2 for exchange 2003 now out. 16gb limit has been raised to 75gb for standard versions!

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:06:00 GMT

I'm faced with a situation where I need to upgrade to Exchange Enterprise 2003 because the information store limit will be reached on SBS 2003.

Can the mail server be a member server of the SBS domain without causing interruption?

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:16:00 GMT

I just installed 2k3srvr onto my SBS03 domain and installed exch2003 on the 2nd box.
All is well except OWA. I have tried to redirect this from the SBS box(which is configured as an front end).. but it just wont resolve.. anyone else have this issue?

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Thu, 05 May 2005 15:20:00 GMT

That was fun to read:)
I have a SBS 2003 and have six locations I would like to connect. I'm currently using SonicWalls for the vpn connections. I have a secondary machine I would like to setup as the BDC. All location have diffrent domain names.

My question is what does everyone think is the best way to set this up?
I will need to use the BDC as a Terminal Server.
Is the installation straight forward on the BDC?
Thanks

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:54:00 GMT

Wow, talk about going back and forth! These posts are makin me dizzy. Just for some clerification, I CANNOT setup another SBS domain controller on my netowrk but I can setup a SBS installation as a backup domain controller on my current SBS domain? Or does this BDC have to be a straight Server 2k installation joining my SBS domain? Some clerification would help greatly, everyone here seems to know what they are talking about and the information in very helpfull.
Thx

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:45:00 GMT

Terry check out www.sbsmigration.com and come into the yahoogroups at sbs2k-subscribe-at-yahoogroups.com for great advice

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:43:00 GMT

I am in the same boat I need to setup a new sbs2003, in a exisitng nt4 domain, the nt4 will be decomissioned aft a couple of weeks but I need to test the new one etc etc.

Any help appreciated
Terry

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:12:00 GMT

Is it possible to attach a new SBS2k3 server to an existing Windows 2000 Server network? The SBS is on a different domain and will be moved out of the exisitng network within a few weeks, but needs to be setup and tested by users in the existing office.

Thanks!

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re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:00 GMT

Jeff,

If the sites are well connected via the Internet, why simply connect them with always on VPN, put domain controllers in two sites, the SBS box in the other. I have several clients with this setup. Excellent results.

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:48:00 GMT

In Exchange there's a way to "bounce out" email that isn't resolving in this domain and forward it to the next.

Best thing is to come to the sbs2k-subscribe-at-yahoogroups.com listserve and bounce your ideas off of other folk.

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:20:00 GMT

Ok, so now my scenerio changes...We have 3 different locations and all want the same domain for email. We will need to have each server as a seperate domain controller with a different domain name. How can I ensure that mail is routed properly to domain.com with 3 SBS2k3 DCs in 3 different locations? Is this possible with SBS 2003? If not I believe the only option would be to have a w2k3 or w2k member server at 2 of the locations for file storage and use rpc over http to connect to the central office...

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:10:00 GMT

Thank you for your comments and links. They are much appreciated.

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:58:00 GMT

Yes I can back it up with factual knowledge:

If that one SBS sees another domain controller, the SBcore service will shut it down. It's in the documentation. And go search the newsgroup for the times that people have tried to put two SBS domains side by side.

Windows 2003 Small Business Server Shuts Down Unexpectedly; Events 1001, 1013 and 1014 are Logged:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555087

»Re: SBS 2003 shuting down: sbcore finding multiple domain controllers« - NewsArch:[ newsgroup.microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs ]:
http://www.newsarch.com/archive/newsgroup/microsoft/public/windows/server/sbs/msg33862.html

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:51:00 GMT

Why 14 days? ...and what do you mean by freak? Could you back this up with some factual knowledge or perhaps a source?

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:18:00 GMT

In 14 days that one SBS is going to see the other DC and freak.

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:15:00 GMT

Actually, I just got done doing an install. What I did was create one SBS2k3 server at our main office. Then I took another server with SBS2k3 and ran through the wizard....when that finished up I ran dcpromo to demote it. Then I removed exchange (connecting to computer at main office) and ran dcpromo again. Now I have two servers that can see each other and are connected through a VPN firewall. Active Directory is replicating just fine, we can see the entire network through both sites, and connect email using RPC over HTTP. Thoughts?

re: The Myths of SBS - "You can't do a second domain controller"

bradley — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:14:00 GMT

Yes people have tried it, and gotten their boxes so screwed up that when they called PSS to fix it the only remedy was to flatten and start over.