BDC

[Krista]

My Knowledge of BDC is nill. My question is can i have one
with SBS 2000 and where can i go to find information on
how to set one up.

Thank you for your time in advance

[amy]

Yes you can have additional servers on your network with
an SBS server. They all co-exist nicely with SBS.

BTW, in Windows 2000 servers are now called either Domain
Controllers or Member Servers. There is no more PCD, BDC
terminology.

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[Merv Porter]

Krista:

If you're looking for a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to take over if the
SBS goes down, the answer is no. While legacy NT 4.0 BDCs can co-exist
within a Windows 2000 domain, they really have no purpose since they can't
assume all the Active Directory roles necessary to act as a Windows 2000 DC.
The best disaster recovery approach is still a full tape backup of the
Operating System, Exchange files, System State and your data files.

Merv
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[Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP]]

Krista,

There is only one really good reason for having a second DC in an SBS
domain, and that is if you have multiple offices that are physically
separated, but have remote access connection options, but will not maintain
24/7 connections, but do require merging files together between both sites,
but also have very "large file content" management issues such as dealing
with Computer Aided Design, photo-imaging, or other bulky files that are not
well suited to other alternatives. Notice that I didn't say "or" above, I
really mean all of that in combination. A Terminal Server does a much better
job to join separated offices than a BDC approach would in almost all
circumstances.

My suggestion to you is that if you have no experience with BDC at this
point, don't have the scenario I just described, forget about pursuing it
with an SBS. Adding an additional Domain Controller to an SBS network is
more likely to only increase the complexity of managing your SBS server,
your network, and you routine actions. It's unlikely to actually increase
your stability or recoverability, and therefore it's simply not a useful
thing to pursue.

The role of additional Daces tends to be overshadowed by the fact that an
SBS domain is pretty much by definition more motivated by small scale
operations, then anything else. I have stated many times, if you think you
need an additional DC in your LAN, you probably are wasting your time unless
you already have 4 servers. The reason is that with the inclusion of a
BackOffice applications on your servers, you become extremely dependent upon
all of you server based applications, not just the Domain Controller, and
therefore the only way that a backup DC really helps you is if both the
primary DC and the secondary DC are in fact doing nothing else but acting as
Daces. That means, they are not running ISA, Exchange, SQL, or file sharing
services. This scenario is not only 100% incompatible with SBS licensing, it
counter to the logic of a small network.

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