On 11/30/05, Rob Moore <RMoore@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kind of a crummy choice, eh? How busy is the Exchange server? Gives me the creeps. Exchange will not be that busy with less than a hundred users. > I inherited a network a while back (supervising another organization's IT > in the same building). For the first year or so their Exchange server > was also their second DC. It didn't seem to cause any problems. Made me > nervous, though, and eventually we got the DC function off there. Yes, this is one of those inheritance issues as well. > Anyway, if I had to choose, I'd choose to put it on the Exchange server. > Better yet, I'd put Windows Server on a plain old PC and make that your > backup DC until you can get it onto a real server. The ActiveDir list guru's agreed that it's better to put another DC role on a basic server or even cheap workstation than none at all. ...D