-----Original Message-----
When I bring up a second DC, will all the services and
configuration from the 1st DC replicate over to the
second DC?
For examle, will DCHP and DNS be configured on both DCs
(1st and second one)the same? That includes the zones &
forwarding and such?
Thanks
.
Mark,
You AD will replicate just like it is supposed to do. To
give you an idea, AD does not have the Primary Domain
Controller ( a writable database ) and the Backup Domain
Controller ( a read-only database ) anymore. They are all
Domain Controllers.
However, DNS and DHCP will not necessarily.
DNS will ONLY if two things happen: 1) you install DNS on
the second DC ( a really good idea ) and you are running
Acrive Directory Integrated DNS ( aka DDNS ). There is no
zone transfer - per se. When AD replicates the
DNS "zones" replicate.
You would not want DHCP to "replicate". While it might
not be a bad idea to have two DHCP Servers per subnet, you
would want to make sure that you followed the 80/20 rule (
or whatever you wanted ). Meaning, if you have a subnet -
let's use 192.168.10.x - you could have one DHCP Server
handing out IP Address leases for 192.168.10.40 through
192.168.10.220 while the other DHCP Server handed out IP
Address leases for 192.168.10.221 through 192.168.10.254...
HTH,
Cary
