Hello!
I am looking to deploy Server 2012 R2 on my home network and I have a couple questions...
My (proposed) setup:
"HOMESERVER" : Primary DC - AD & DNS only (DHCP handled by router, static IPs for both servers)
"MEDIASERVER" : Secondary DC - AD & ?
Various Win8 clients.
My questions mostly surround MEDIASERVER. It is a server that I intend to have connected to a VPN service 24/7 and so I am wondering how that will affect its ability to act as a DC. Also, I have desktop applications that will be running on it and I am wondering what the best way to set this up is? Just a regular domain user who is always logged in to the server? Need to be able to schedule programs and scripts (with admin priv. as scripts perform firewall toggles). It will be used for accessing internet resources/services. It also acts as NAS, sharing ~8TB of data through SMB shares.
Thanks in advance!