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Mastering Active Directory
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Mastering Active Directory

by Dishan Francis
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Single forest – single cluster

This is the most commonly used deployment topology. AD RMS operation boundaries are limited to their own forest. The deployment will have only one AD RMS cluster to process certificates and licensing requirements. The cluster can contain any number of servers, and load balancing is handled in the cluster level. If it has multiple servers, the AD RMS cluster should use the MS SQL Server database instead of WIDs. This deployment model will not consider extending to non-corporate networks.

Following are the advantages and disadvantages of single forest--single cluster:

Advantages

Disadvantages

Easy to implement. A fewer number of resources (servers and licenses) are used.

Can protect data only within ...

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