DCs with diferent versions: Datacenter/Standard

Question

Hello, I want to confirm if it is possible to have DCs with standard / datacenter windows versions in a domain. I understand that there is no problem but ...

I am right?

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you so much for posting here.

There will be no problem to have DCs with Standard and Datacenter windows versions in a domain. There are DCs with Standard and Datacenter windows versions in my test environment and there is no any issue.

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Best regards,
Hannah Xiong

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Answer 2

Hi,

* Hello, I want to confirm if it is possible to have DCs with standard / datacenter windows versions in a domain. I understand that there is no problem but ...*

*I am right? *

Yes you are right there is no problem. But the standard version is enough to install a domain controller. The datacenter licence is more expensive.
The Datacenter version is required in case of Highly virtualized datacenters and cloud environments

pricing

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