Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Leverage RODCs when there is a lack of experienced IT support personnel supporting the domain controller at the branch office and to reduce replication workload between the branch office and hub site.

• Use RODCs at the branch office to maintain administrator role separation and isolation when the domain controller is hosting more than one application.

• Conduct a staged implementation of an RODC if there is a need to have a non-highly privileged administrator conduct the RODC installation at the branch office.

• Use BitLocker Drive Encryption to encrypt the volumes of an RODC to further enhance domain controller security.

• Review your existing branch office application, web, ...

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