| Hey Glenn,
Good questions. I think the answers depend on your resources and management goals.
What are the specs on these servers, and are you anywhere near capacity in terms of storage, processing or network throughput?
What is your mix of clients?
Where there is crossover (DNS, Web), are there features on one server that you don't get on the other and that is why there is crossover?
In general I would recommend the DNS and DHCP servers be the same platform for management sake.
Many districts see value in having a single directory. You could certainly have AD be the single authoritative directory, and have all file sharing be based out of the OS X server. You could have the Windows Server provide AD as well as file storage.
Talk more about your client base, your overhead, your educational goals, and your management expectations. Then we can talk about "best practices".
-Mike
On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Glen Worthing wrote: Hi everyone,
Question on "best practice" and/or what you have found to work well in you environment when having a Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server and a Microsoft Windows 2008R2 Server running on the same subnet.
- On the Snow Leopard Server, I am running the following services: AFP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, iCal, NetBoot, NFS, Open Directory, Podcast Producer, SMB, Software Update, Web, Xgrid
- On the Windows 2008R2 Server, I am running the following services: AD Domain Services, DNS, File Services, Print and Document Services, Web Server (IIS)
I know there is some overlap, but am not sure what server is the best server to run the services from. For instance, would you run DNS on the Mac Server or the Windows Server for a mixed environment? Would you run OD and AD, or just one or the other? Would you actually not have these on the same subnet but split them off via VLANs and then run all the services from both servers?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
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