Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Creating redundancy for Active Directory is critical to the success of your network. Hardware fails, we all know it. A good practice for any company is to run two DCs so that everyone continues to work in the event of a server failure. An even better practice is to take this a step further and create more DCs, some of them in different sites perhaps, and maybe even make use of some Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC) in your smaller, less secure sites. See the following link for some additional information on using an RODC in your environment: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754719(v=ws.10).aspx.