{"id":13844,"date":"2012-11-28T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:59:27","slug":"kb281662-how-to-use-windows-server-cluster-nodes-as-domain-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13844","title":{"rendered":"KB281662 &#8211; How To Use Windows Server Cluster Nodes As Domain Controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just posted a Knowledge Base or support <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/281662\/en-us?sd=rss&amp;spid=14134\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>, covering Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering, that describes how to enable Active Directory and use Failover Cluster nodes as domain controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this should be a <em>last resort<\/em>. It falls into my \u201cdon\u2019t do it because you can\u201d rule. For example, I can jump off of a cliff but I choose not to do so because I like breathing and the results that gives me.<\/p>\n<p>There are some notes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/281662\/en-us?sd=rss&amp;spid=14134\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doing this is not supported on Exchange nodes<\/li>\n<li>This is not supported for SQL Server nodes<\/li>\n<li>Hyper-V recommends not to run roles other than Hyper-V in the Management OS (the article mistakenly calls it the parent partition)<\/li>\n<li>And the list goes on and on and on \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact that this list of notes is so long should indicate to you that implementing this configuration is <em>bad<\/em>.&#160; I personally think Microsoft shouldn\u2019t support it because there are too many morons out there who will do it, break it, and screw up their employers\/customers.&#160; If you\u2019ve read this, ignored my advice, and call me for help, I will laugh in your face or down the phone at you. <\/p>\n<p>Save this configuration for the lab <em>only<\/em>.&#160; That\u2019s not the official line from Microsoft, but that\u2019s my line.&#160; Actually, read the list of notes in the article and you\u2019ll see:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is not supported to combine the Active Directory Domain Services role and the Failover Cluster feature on Windows Server 2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to save money and not have additional physical domain controllers, then use Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to take advantage of cluster bootstrapping. This will allow you to run virtual DCs. I\u2019d consider running at least 2 virtual DCs, 1 being HA, and the other not.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:81c62917-decf-4eaa-82e7-fdeea1f4fe3e\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\" rel=\"tag\">Failover Clustering<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just posted a Knowledge Base or support article, covering Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering, that describes how to enable Active Directory and use Failover Cluster nodes as domain controllers. Doing this should be a last resort. It falls into my \u201cdon\u2019t do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13844\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KB281662 &#8211; How To Use Windows Server Cluster Nodes As Domain Controllers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[63,181,118],"class_list":["post-13844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}