Hi all,
I have little experience with AD. I have installed AD on our local DC in the office LAN but not much else.
We lease a remote dedicated Web Server from HostGator. This is the first ever situation I have ever had dealing with a server directly facing the internet with a valid public IP on its NIC and not a local IP.
This server does not manage any local PCs locally. It has 2 NICs, one of them is unplugged from the network and the other one is facing the Internet. To explain a bit, this is basically a single web server which currently hosts a dozen of websites and I maintain it using remote desktop.
The OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (not Web Edition). We have several ASP.NET websites and applications running on the server in production mode. One website is a busy eCommerce site.
We would also like to host our custom Visual Basic Desktop Applications in a Cloud Environment using Remote Desktop Services. In fact we are currently offering a legacy VB6 app via RDWeb Access.
I have discovered that to properly assign Users and Groups to specific Apps that are displayed in RDWeb Access, I must install Active Directory. Can I do this without causing problems with the functioning of the Web Server?
We are a small company and can't at this time afford another separate box for Application Hosting.
Thanks for any help.