Setting Up the Domains
After you establish network connectivity, group the servers into two domains before you install Commerce Server 2002. Create two separate, trusted domains: a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the Web tier and an intranet zone for the database tier. You should configure a domain controller for each zone that provides DNS services.
On each domain controller, add new hosts to recognize the appropriate servers (or clusters) in a different domain. For example, on the DMZ domain controller you could add two new hosts using the virtual IP address of the Web cluster and the cluster IP address of the SQL Server cluster. On the intranet domain controller you could add a new host for each server in the Web cluster.
After creating the two domains and adding the appropriate hosts, join each server to its respective domain. For example, each Web server should be a member of the DMZ domain, while each SQL Server and Business Desk server should be a member of the intranet domain. For instructions on joining a server to a domain, use the procedure described in Joining Web Servers to an Active Directory Domain. Domain configuration is complete when all servers are restarted after joining the appropriate domains.
If you decide to implement the Active Directory directory service to store user profile or other data, you must complete several steps, which are described in the following topics.
.gif "Ee799759.note(en-US,CS.20).gif")
Note
- Before you complete any of these steps, it is important that you understand Active Directory and its role in your site plan. For more information about Active Directory, see the Windows 2000 documentation.
This section contains:
- Creating an Active Directory Domain
- Synchronizing Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Adding a Domain Controller to an Existing Domain
- Enabling Web Servers to Authenticate Users on Other Servers
See Also
Planning for the Profiling System
Planning for Active Directory Integration
Copyright © 2005 Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved.