Comments on: Active Directory in the Cloud http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/active-directory-in-the-cloud/ Sat, 18 May 2013 03:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: bahamutx2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/active-directory-in-the-cloud/#comment-106684 bahamutx2 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:57 +0000 #comment-106684 Thanks for the answers. I decided not to go that route.

]]> By: bahamutx2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/active-directory-in-the-cloud/#comment-101647 bahamutx2 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:31:27 +0000 #comment-101647 Mrdenny: The Cloud – using Rackspace cloud server for my VM.

Still new to all this but does having a domain controller VM in the cloud server mean I’m exposing it to the internet? The domain controller has 2 NICS – one for private and other for public.

]]> By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/active-directory-in-the-cloud/#comment-101641 mrdenny Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:42:48 +0000 #comment-101641 Oh, and you should NEVER expose a domain controller to the internet, for ANY reason.

]]> By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/active-directory-in-the-cloud/#comment-101640 mrdenny Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:42:12 +0000 #comment-101640 Define “The Cloud”. You could easily enough setup a couple of small Windows 2008 VMs at Amazon EC2, setup a VPN between Amazon and your sites and then setup the EC2 machines to be domain controllers. The risk to doing this of course is that if your office internet goes down you can’t authenticate which is why you should always have at least one domain controller in each office.

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