I am working on it. I learned a things with that poll…
1. That software wasn’t designed to host a poll with multiple questions
2. I need to write better questions, some people seemed confused with the answers they gave.
3. Some people like to stuff the ballot box (didn’t think I would look at the IP addresses did ya!)
Very quickly though, I was overwhelming wrong in the 25,000 users or less space[1] about how much virtualization of DCs is going on. Most (~93%) of that space, according to the folks (or person) who voted, is using virtual DCs in some way shape or form. I am still processing the numbers for >25000 users. I hope they are all following the guidelines… 🙂
There were four responses that they didn’t have money for a lab yet in every one they were all using virtual DCs (at least one said all of their DCs were virtual) so I don’t quite understand that.
RODCs do not seem to be all that popular with the respondents. Of the responses, only 25% had at least one RODC. Though I find that number even a bit surprising based on what I have seen and heard about professionally and through joeware assistance.
Anyway, I hope to have some nice pretty graphs up here in the next week or so. The real job has been challenging lately with masses of FRS/SYSVOL issues and a real PITA ADI DNS[2] issue. All I can say is that so many people are running around thinking AD is a commodity and there is nothing to running it and then they hit an issue and I get called in and start looking and have to show them just how poorly things have been done and that contrary to popular belief, AD doesn’t just run itself….. forever anyway.
joe
[1] That accounted for about ~60% of the overall respondents. I was a little surprised by that as well. I am glad that my utilities and blog are useful to more than just the largish enterprise customers. Actually ~8% of the respondents were from orgs with less than 500 users, that really shocked me.
[2] Anyone that has spoken with me knows I much prefer DNS outside of AD. If they set it up to run on ADAM/ADLDS I would probably be ok with that though I would still prefer BIND based DNS. If anyone from a MSFT DNS team is reading this… How long ago did I ask for VIEW functionality? How long? Seriously.
