Ars Technica

"Backup" Domain Controller failure consequences? Need for fault-tolerance? Old image?

For a Windows 2000 active directory setup, I know there "technically" isn't a "BDC", but it is recommended that there is a second member server to keep things authenticating should the PDC go ...
Ars Technica

Domain Controller HD died, ghosted from a 2 month old backup -- how to join domain?

So my "backup" domain controller (Win 2000 Server, active directory)'s hard drive died. I had a ghost of it from 2 months ago and I successfully restored it to a new hard drive.<BR><BR>It takes a long ...
Network World

Back to the Future with Read-Only Domain Controllers

It’s back to the future – remember the Windows NT Backup Domain Controller (BDC)? It could log you on, but you couldn’t make any changes to it. The 2008 version of the BDC goes by the new name of Read ...
Computer Weekly

Recovering domain controllers after a server disk failure

In the first part of this series, I talked about how you could recover your server after a system volume failure. In this article, I want to turn my attention to some special procedures used for ...
Computerworld

Longhorn Server Revealed: Active Directory Enhancements

Think back to the days of Windows NT 4.0, where there was one king of the hill, the primary domain controller (PDC), and then any number of subservient princes below that king on the same hill — the ...