drwhatley Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I have 3 domain controllers in our production environment. My goal is to run windows updates on each one individually so as to only take one out at a time. My question is, should I be worried about clients connected to a controller having issues if the controller reboots? My understanding is they should automatically take to the next controller. I only do updates once every 6 months to a year, so I know the machine will have to restart several times. Will clients experience any more than a couple seconds of grief or a blip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 A user get authenticated via the same DC most all the time. The only disruption anyone would see on a reboot, would be a re-request to authenticate. But this happens so fast that most users usually think nothing of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drwhatley Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 A user get authenticated via the same DC most all the time. The only disruption anyone would see on a reboot, would be a re-request to authenticate. But this happens so fast that most users usually think nothing of it That's what I thought. I just needed some confirmation. Thanks for the reply and assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 It will be a blip, just as load balanced web servers would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Worm Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Are any of them a DNS server? If you only setup one to be the DNS server than that will not let anyone access the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellDiverUK Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Makes me wonder why you're not running WSUS, and why you're only doing Windows Updates every 6 months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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