AD, DNS and WINS for a small environment < 200 accounts

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Marlon Brown

I need to setup AD for a very small company;
Do you think it is practical and recommended host DC, DNS and WINS on the
same server ? If not, I will consider VMWare to partition the box and
separate services for WINS.
 
I need to setup AD for a very small company;
Do you think it is practical and recommended host DC, DNS and WINS on the
same server ? If not, I will consider VMWare to partition the box and
separate services for WINS.
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Yes, but why do you need WINS?


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Marlon,

How 'small' is small? Are you going to be using Small Business Server 2003?
Are there going to be multiple Sites ( as defined in the ADSS )?

What would be the problem running DNS and WINS on the Domain Controller?
Lots of people do this.

And, I know that you know this, but it is always a good thing to have a
second Domain Controller in the environment. Yep, even with a good backup!
Run DNS on the second DC as well and make use of DDNS. Make sure that your
DHCP includes the information ( scope options 003, 006 and 015.....with WINS
044 and 046 ).

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
 
I need to setup AD for a very small company;
Do you think it is practical and recommended host DC, DNS and WINS on the
same server ? If not, I will consider VMWare to partition the box and
separate services for WINS.
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What Cary says. Pick any reasonable desktop spec machine and install
Win2k/AD on it. It doesn't have to be server class.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
Jerold Schulman said:
Yes, but why do you need WINS?
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I run a full native mode Windows 2003/XP domain and still have WINS.
The Reason - NetBios is still how users log on, Windows maps drives
etc. DNS hasn’t come close to replacing it.

Can’t see the point of making all my users logon with DNS eg.
"(e-mail address removed)" or map drives using
"server.domain.local\share" when they can just put in username or
server\share

In answer to the original question, we have lots of small domains in
our org. running one DC with DNS, WINS and DHCP with no problems. Not
a good idea without fault tolerance (backup DC) but in our case cost
of server license is just not justified for value of data.

Cheers,

Lara
 
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