Smallbusiness lisense doesnot allow 2nd domain controler

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Waseem

I am told by microsoft sales person that I cannot add 2nd
domain controler with small business version of windows
2003.
Is that right? If it is right then how the rest of
network will work if the only domain controler in a
domain will crash.

Regards.
 
I believe that is incorrect (unless Microsoft changed the policy going to
SBS2003). SBS2000 limits you to just one domain, not domain controller.
You can have as many domain controllers (backup, load distribution, etc.) as
you like in that domain (subject of course to the restriction on the number
of CALs, which is limited to 50 in SBS2000). When you do the DCPROMO of the
second (and subsequent) domain controllers, you specify an additional domain
controller in an existing domain. Also, you can have multiple member
servers (non-domain controllers) in the domain, subject to the CAL limit.
You just can't have child domains or multiple domains (as in a forest). If
you read the EULA carefully, it refers to domains, not domain controllers.

Ken
 
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