Creating a Highly Available AD Pair with On-Prem AD Servers and Load Balancer

James Curtis
InfoSec Write-ups
Published in
3 min readOct 29, 2023

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Active Directory (AD) serves as the backbone of many organizations’ identity and access management systems. Ensuring high availability of AD services is critical to maintaining the productivity and security of your network. One way to achieve this is by setting up a Highly Available AD Pair using two on-premises AD servers and a load balancer. This approach not only creates redundancy but also bolsters your defenses against hardware failures and ransomware attacks, while increasing availability, especially when AD servers…

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