Lesson 6: Windows Server 2008 RODC – Read Only Domain Controllers

What is an RODC? When do you use it? How do you use it?

These are just some of things we’re going to be covering today. I will also explain the requirements for an RODC and walk you through the steps to deploy RODC on your server.

Here’s what’s covered in today’s video:

• What is an RODC — RODC allows users to authenticate against a read only copy of the Active Directory in a remote location; I’ll explain in detail when it is best to use RODC
• Advantages of RODC — I’ll also go over the main advantages of using RODC, whether you can use it with Server Core and what you can do to increase protection
• Deploying RODC — next we’ll go over what you need to install RODC and all the steps involved in doing a full installation
• RODC Role Installation — using our Verde Petra scenario we will go ahead and install the RODC role on our server so you can see all the steps in action
• Password Replication Policy — you get to decide who gets to log in to the RODC and who does not so here I’ll show you how to specify the Password Replication Policy
• Pre-Populating a Password — next we’re going to pre-populate our RODC with a password from one of the employees from our scenario

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• Install Read-Only Domain Controller on Windows Server 2008
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• Lesson 7: Server 2008 IIS 7 Web Servers
• Lesson 5: Windows Server 2008 File and Print Servers

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