RDP for Domain Controllers and Clustered Setup

[LOUIS NAUDE]

Does any of you guys out there use rdp on domain controllers and clustered setup, and if so what is the pressures of restoring images to domain controllers and clustered setup environment.

Thanks in advance


Louis

[Adrian Clint_1]

Louis,

I dont think you can deploy finished DC's or Clusters Images without probelms.
In the RDP training guides I have the way of deploying Clusters it shows,is to do a scripted or image install of a non clustered node and then to script setting up the cluster.
I would expect that for a DC you run a DCPROMO script.

Adrian

[Steven Clementi]

Using the unattend.txt file, you can set up both AD Controllers and Cluster.

Restoring images of these 2 beasts are a different story. I would expect that if the whole cluster failed, you should be able to restore both nodes from the 2 different images, but it might be harder to restore a single node and add it backto a cluster.

It is sometimes easier to restore a base image of the node, then run the cluster wizard manually to join it back into the cluster.

DC's... well, they might have issues if there are existing DC's on the network and think that that server is now gone.

Just some thoughts, I have not done either of these.

Happy Holiday's,

Steven