Search Again: Re: Moving to windows From: JRascon@ameriquest.com Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Time: 9:02:04 am Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server products are pretty decent. The DNS and DHCP are well tooled and from my hands on experience capable of handling heavy demands. Currently we have Win2k DNS and DHCP managing 12000 users and 1500 servers and our performance is fine. My thought on the issue is you use what you have and Microsoft provides DNS and DHCP integrated into its product and Active Directory. If you intend on using Active Directory then you will want to use MS DNS and DHCP. "imho" Best Regards, Jacob Rascon System Engineer Systems Technology - Infrastructure Jim Cobb <jim.cobb@tissue1.org> Sent by: <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> 08/18/2004 06:05 AM Please respond to "QuickDNS Talk" To: QuickDNS Talk <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> cc: Subject: Moving to windows Management has decided that we are moving 100% to windows. Currently we are 2/3rds Macs with windows machines under NT domains/WINS and we are using using OS X dns servers with QuickDNS 4.5.1. My questions are: -Should we use 2003 DNS or stick with Unix DNS? -If we user 2003 DNS what is it's relationship with QuickDNS/Bind version 8/9? -While there are some instructions in the manual for changing Bind to dynamic DNS (which we may have to do for the transition), the utilities mentioned in the docs either don't seem to work or don't exist on the servers (we are using 10.2.8). -What are you guys using out there? My Microsoft people predict total and abject failure unless we use the entire server2003 suite, including DHCP etc. end to end unadulterated by Unix or "foreign programs" (which I interpret as non-microsoft). Thanks for any help with this- Jim ----------------------------------------- No electronic signature authorized - See complete company policy statement at: http://www.ameriquestmortgage.com/terms.html

Messages In This Thread: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 6:08:29 am Re: Moving to windows by Michael Wise on Aug 18, 2004 at 8:41:01 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:02:04 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:10:05 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:42:21 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 9:51:34 am Re: Moving to windows by JRascon@ameriquest.com on Aug 18, 2004 at 10:02:37 am Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 11:02:46 am Re: Moving to windows by mattb on Aug 18, 2004 at 12:06:10 pm Re: Moving to windows by Sigfus Magnusson on Aug 18, 2004 at 1:48:53 pm Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 2:28:10 pm Re: Moving to windows by Men & Mice Support on Aug 18, 2004 at 2:58:12 pm Re: Moving to windows by Jim Cobb on Aug 18, 2004 at 3:18:41 pm