Comments on: Is a Domain Controller Required When Using Azure to Host the File Share Witness for a Database Availability Group?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 01:16:17 +0000

I really hope the Exchange team is going to implement support for this. Two servers is an absurd amount of infrastructure to have to maintain for the sake of a file share witness when we have cloud witness support right there in the underlying clustering service that it’s leveraging already.

Enhancements like this are the sort of thing I fear will not happen as Microsoft’s preference these days is to simply push you into Exchange Online. Hopefully they will prove me wrong!

By: David Bowie's fan

David Bowie's fan — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 03:07:21 +0000

Thanks for this information.

By: Han

Han — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:59:34 +0000

Hi Paul,

It is perfectly legal to have an Active Directory site without a Domain Controller. So I see no reason why a Domain Controller is necessary in this scenario.
Reference: http://blog.joeware.net/2015/03/31/5599/

Regards,
Han.