Question on AD-DMZ to accomodate SQL and other servers

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Mr. Magoo - 30 Jun 2005 04:03 GMT

I am planning to setup servers on the DMZ (published by ISA 2004).

The problem is this:
If I setup SQL servers in a cluster in the DMZ, I see that Microsoft Cluster
Services setup would require a domain account. That said it seems I would
need to setup a domain+forest to give me more flexibility to setup servers
in the DMZ instead of using a workgroup configuration.

Question is this, I would need at least two domain controllers in the DMZ to
put a decent domain in place and provide adequate redundancy in case of one
of the DC's go down.

Instead of setting such domain/forest, could I use ADAM to get this task of
AD-DMZ accomplished ?

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Mike Epprecht \(SQL MVP\) - 30 Jun 2005 04:35 GMT

Ho

No. You need a full domain with DC's. ADAM is too lightweight and does not
supply the functionality required by the servers.

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>I am planning to setup servers on the DMZ (published by ISA 2004).
>
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> Instead of setting such domain/forest, could I use ADAM to get this task
> of AD-DMZ accomplished ?

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