Two servers in a domain, both running Windows 2003 Server. How to avoid conflicts?

[treysha]

Hi,
I believe this may sound like a simple question, so pardon me if I seem to be asking the obvious.

I have a server running Windows 2003 Server as my primary domain controller. And I want to install another separate machine also running Windows 2003 Server to run aa webserver.

How can I make sure that the two machines do not cause conflicts with each other? Am asking because once when I ran a Windows NT Server 4.0 machine and a Windows 2003 Server in the same domain, I had a nightmare when they both caused so many conflicts in the network.

Hope somebody can help guide me how to configure the new machine so that it doesn't cause any conflicts with the existing server.

[juniper]

Well I cant tell you the exact reason you had trouble before probably you setup the 2003 server in native 2003 mode and not compatibility mode that would give you issues, or worse if you created two domains one on each server with the same domain name that would cause lotsa issues (dont ever do that, not even with 2 2003 boxes!!!!). for 2003 and 2003 there is no issues but your web server should be in a DMZ and not part of the domain at all for security reasons.

[Erik]

I see no issues as long as you don't intend to setup the second server with AD and DNS too. If you just have it running as a simple web server it would cause no problems I can think of.

Of course as mentioned keep it in a DMZ or any other such measure for security.