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re: DNS Scavenging

cpatralekh — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:08:09 GMT

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CP

re: Does it matter what I install on Domain Controllers.

Garry — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:46:38 GMT

Thats correct Richard the other issue is you end up conflicts if the group is created before replication has fully occured.
If you are forced to use SMS on DC's that are non SP1 you can either:

1) Permisson IIS to use another group
2) Edit the IIS.inf to remove the group deltion section.

These are all manual steps and people forget them so as Richard said just dont do it where possible as you may think you are saving money but in reality you are making support harder

re: Egypt Time Zone issue

Garry — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:41:13 GMT

Fixed it after spending time teaching the first Microsoft Support person how Time works not good. Quick escalation by our Tam got me the hotfixes I needed

re: Does it matter what I install on Domain Controllers.

RichardLythgoe — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:58:56 GMT

We (unfortunately) run SMS site servers on many of our Domain Controllers and found a nice little gotcha when one of the SMS administrators was having a problem with the IIS installation on one. In attempting to resolve the problem he inocently removed IIS from a domain controller, the uninstallation routine deleted the IIS_WPG group from the domain! (It gets created as a domain local group if installation occurs on a domain controller)

This group deletion caused a host of problems for our SMS environment in that domain and took a little while to understand why (well at least the first time it happened anyway!)

This problem is fixed when you run IIS on W2K3 SP1 machines, but i'd still not recommend this kind of infrastructure sharing where ever possible.

re: Does it matter what I install on Domain Controllers.

Rob - MVP — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:06:30 GMT

For SMS, you really should seperate your clients and servers using at the very least a primary for each type. And you also need to consider the security model, in the form of accounts and groups for each type.

But, if the additional hardware is a problem (budget, lack of) then definately think through what you're doing before you begin combining server service roles (exchange, sms, mom, dc, ...) on one server.