Windows 2003 Standard Edition 64bit and AD

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drdre

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Guys... I am new to windows 2003 . and my small office(8 people) just bought a low end dell server with Windows 2003 server.. I am familiar with most of the services... but not AD.

Did a little work with windows2000 server a few years aback...

I want to learn a bit more about Active server Directory in Windows 2003.

Can anyone point me to some online resources please..
 
Did you know that AD performance is much better in 64-bit?

Weird, eh?

:)
 
Why did you get 64bit for 8 users? Anyway read the link given. AD is pretty easy to setup.
 
The reason for 64bit version is that the application we are running at the office requires MSSQL... and its very RAM intensive..

so we took 4GB of ram for now.. and looking to increase it to 8GB some time in the future.

thanks for all the help.
 
well keep in mind that MSSQL will take 80% of whatever amount of ram you have installed. ;) It is not because your DB is hogging all that, it is native MSSQL behavior.
 
figgie said:
well keep in mind that MSSQL will take 80% of whatever amount of ram you have installed. ;) It is not because your DB is hogging all that, it is native MSSQL behavior.
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Actually, that is a good thing. It is better to have malloc()'d the ram before it is required than when the thing is dying from lack of resources.
 
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