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re: Confidence

johnchristie11 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:15:04 GMT

Any person who is willing to talk in front of large audiences has my respect.

re: Confidence

neilruston — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:33:53 GMT

I'm sure you did a great job, Mark :)

Pubic speaking is a skill which some have naturally whilst others acquire over time.

Most of us are in the second bracket :/

re: * UPDATE * Microsoft Support does not recommend a lag site as a disaster recovery strategy - Reasons 123...

neilruston — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:00:43 GMT

It's a shame that MS don't recognise that certain solutions are appropriate in certain scenarios but not others. A lag site is useful for object restores but not forest restores. Does that mean a lag site is of no use? Not at all!

I have used a lag site for object recovery for many years and found it to be immensely useful. Does it come with an inherent overhead and cost - yes, of course. We all perform cost / benefit and risk analyses tho, don't we???

[AD] Recovery comes in different flavours:

1. Objects

2. Devices [DCs]

3. Forest / domain

Each of the above 3 flavours requires a solution. Each solution may only be relevant to one flavour.

In a nutshell - horses for courses :)

re: Next [ADUG] meeting?

Mark Parris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:47:18 GMT

Identity Management is an excellent subject to discuss as Active Directory can be the foundation for multiple scenarios around IdM.

I shall add it to the list of topics to discuss.

re: Next [ADUG] meeting?

neilruston — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:03 GMT

Not sure if you want to keep the forum AD-only ... if not, then some ILM related discussions would be good. AD is merely one piece of the directory services puzzle :)

re: Active Directory - Cosmetic Forestry

neilruston — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:10:31 GMT

Good points, well put :)

All the more reason to start with agnostic, meaningless domain names. if the company changes in any way, then the domain names remain unaffected.

I like to use words which appear to have meaning but actually do not (and are not registered to a company either, of course!)

neil

re: Next [ADUG] meeting?

Rajni.Pandey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:35:23 GMT

How about Group Policy Management, Best Practices or DNS Architecture.

re: Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

gordonah — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:56:07 GMT

Brian

that makes sense. I often see similar (multipel logical / single physical) to guard against NTFS corruption issues on large file servers.

Regards

Gordon

re: Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

Brian_O — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:13:04 GMT

Hey Gordon,

I seem to recall that way back when, one of the considerations around logical partitioning, regardless of your spindle arrangement, was to mitigate for Sysvol FRS problems under high delta rates on NTFS journalling. I know the default journal sizes got a considerable boost in a service pack to address some of this.

re: Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

Mark Parris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:01:51 GMT

I always partition the disks up this way, for ease of reference.

re: Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

gordonah — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:02:27 GMT

Mark

where there is a single RAID set, what is the advantage of splitting this in to different volumes, D: & E:, and balancing the AD files across them?

Is it to have consistent file locations between the servers if different disk configurations (i.e. logs are always on E:).

Gordon

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re: Confidence

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re: *** UPDATE *** Microsoft Support does not recommend a lag site as a disaster recovery strategy - Reasons 123...

re: Next [ADUG] meeting?

re: Next [ADUG] meeting?

re: Active Directory - Cosmetic Forestry

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re: Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

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