[ale] Way OT: Windows DC question

[H. A. Story]

Think of all the money he could have saved by using a SAMBA DC.

The thing that worries me the most about windows is backups and crash 
recovery.  but this isn't the place for it. :)

Adrin


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:57 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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>
>>Ignore this question.
>>
>>I decided to go ahead and try the Workstation install followed by
>>conversion to DC.
>>
>>It was surprisingly simple and was simple follow the leader stuff.  I
>>guess I would have known that if I had ever installed Win2003 server
>>before.
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>>
>
>Ah, well. Another good virgin ruined by the dark side...
>  
>
>>On 11/8/05, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>All,
>>>
>>>Soory about the OT question, but I'm getting frustrated and I've
>>>already spent an hour trying to research this very simple question.
>>>===
>>>
>>>I have a client that wants me to evaluate Microsoft CRM for them.
>>>
>>>It seems to require the server be a Microsoft 2003 Domain Controller.
>>>
>>>I have a test computer I can install Win 2003 on, but what are the
>>>basic steps for installing it as a DC.  I do NOT have a windows domain
>>>available to leverage off of.  This will be the main DC for a single
>>>server LAN.  I'm doing a from scratch install, not an upgrade.
>>>
>>>Way back in the NT days it was required to declare a system a PDC
>>>during the install.  I no longer see a way to do this.  Do I just
>>>install as a workgroup member, then somehow convert the server to a
>>>DC?
>>>
>>>Greg
>>>--
>>>Greg Freemyer
>>>The Norcross Group
>>>Forensics for the 21st Century
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>>The Norcross Group
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