Ise personas and Active directory

hello everybody ,
just a question...
which persona needs more bandwidth with Active Directory?
Supposing I have admin/monitor ----------firewall ----------- policy service
on wich side should I place AD ? (cause firewall limits bandwidth?)
thank you in advance for your response

The primary admin node and the policy service nodes. All nodes join to AD, but when you create groups in AD and build your polices that is done from the primary admin node, the PSN nodes are responsible for enforcing these policies. This is my personal opinion.
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It's the other way around. Overall, I'm advising ripping the 2008 server out of AD and adding it back . Let's look at this as a series of steps:
1.) You do a force demote of the 2008 server because it's tombstoned. This means the 2008 server is no longer a DC. You are doing a force because it doesn't have the ability to replicate. If it could replicate, we'd just do a graceful demotion
and be done with it.
2.) Once the 2008 server is demoted, we go to the 2000 server which holds the only good copy of AD. From that server we run a metadata cleanup using the ntdsutil utility. We use that utility to clean out references to the 2008 server which is
no longer a DC.
3.) Once you have a clean AD, you can then promote the 2008 server back into Active Directory. Make sure Vader is pointing to Dells3 as its primary DNS server before promoting or you'll run into issues.
Hopefully that clarifies things.

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