RE: IIS6 on W2k3 DCs

> You can have a backup domain controller now....okay here goes 
> the myths of SBS again... we HAVE to be the PRIMARY domain 
> controller [hold all the FSMO roles] but we can have BACKUP 
> domain controllers all we want.

If we're going to address myths, there IS NO SUCH THING AS A BACKUP DOMAIN
CONTROLLER in Windows 2000 or later. Period. Backup domain controllers hold
read-only copies of a SAM. Since Win2K/2K3 domain controllers hold
*read/write replicas of the Active Directory database*, then by definition,
they cannot be backup domain controllers. I cringe whenever I hear somebody
use that terminology in reference to Win2K+, because to me it implies a
serious lack of understanding of the underlying structures of a domain. 

Laura


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